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wake of last month’s
early retirement
announcement, the University
of Waterloo announced a major restructuring of its central administrative
structure.
While four Associate
Provost positions
will remain in
place, their titles and responsibilities will in cases radically change
in ways directly affecting students.
Most significantly,
the positions of Associate
Provost Academic Affairs and Associate Provost Student Affairs will be merged.
The new position; Associate Provost, Academic and Student Affairs
will be responsible for the Library,
Cooperative
Education and Career
Services, the Teaching Resource
and Continuing
Education Office,
and other areas, as well as undergraduate student relations and liaising with the Federated and Affiliated Colleges.
Catherine Scott, the new Associate Provost, Human Resources,
will be responsible
for the Human
Resources Department,
as well as
the key student services such as
Health Services, Counselling Services, Services for the Disabled, the
lntemational
Students Office, and
Athletics.
Bud Walker, currently the Director of Data Processing, is being
seconded to the position of Director of Business Operations
for two
years. He will be responsible
for
&he University’s
revenue-generat-

it seems a strange fit, Walker
will also be responsible
for
Housing and Residences.
Additionally,
a new position of Associate Vice-President
will be created. This individual
will “provide assistance and advice to the Vice-President
Academic and Provost in areas such
as inter-Faculty
and inter-institutional
cooperation,
undergraduate affairs, interdisciplinary programs,
Canadian exchange programs,
and will coordinate academic
department
reviews.”

a facelift
When asked for comment
on the changes, Federation
of
Students President Jane Pak had
mixed
feelings.
“I
think there are a lot
of benefits,”
she began, citing the expanSionoftheroleofHuman Resources as an
example.
Pak feels
that many of the concerns brought up in
the PACOHAD
report (Provost’s
Advisory Committee on
Harassment and Discrimination)
may be
better addressed by
this move. She also
viewed the creation
of an Associate Provost, Information
Systems and Technology
as a positive, seeing
that as a move to fulfilling the vision of
the university
for the future.
Given that Student Services
are scattered across several new
portfolios,
Pak viewed that as
first among the downpoints
of
the restructuring.
“The main concern is that student affairs may
get lost in the huge Associate
Provost, Academic
and Student
Affairs portfolio.”
Pak was also worried about
some of the current functions of
the Associate
Provost,
Student
Affairs, being lost in the shuffle.
“Another
concern I have is that
there are a lot of portions of stu-

B.C. freezes tuition
by Patti

Lenard

Imprint staff

T

he government
of British
Columbia
has announced
a freeze on tuition fees, despite anticipated
cuts in federal
grants that have traditionally
been
used to fund post-secondary
education.
This move, made on
Monday,
is being praised
by the Canadian Federation
of Students (CFS) as a step
towards maintaining affordable access to education;
a
step that the CFS is hoping
will be mimicked
by other
provinces.
According
to the National Chairperson
of the
CFS, Guy Caron,
“this
clearly
demonstrates
that
there are alternatives
to hiking tuition fees” when faced with
having to reduce the debt. “It is,”
says Caron, “simply a question of
priorities.”
Indeed, the NDP government
of British Columbia seems to have
recognized
that students are not
likely be able to shoulder increased
tuition costs.

Now, students
attending
school in British Columbia are
the envy of those attending
school in Alberta and Ontario,
as both groups are facing tuition
increases of at least 20% by the
end of this year.
However, the freeze on tuition fees is not being accepted at

Critics suggest that
Premier Glen CZark
has declared a freeze
on tuition us a step to
ensure votes 2rt the
upcoming election.
face vaIue by aU. Critics of the
government
suggest that Premier Glen Clark has declared a
freeze on tuition as a step to
ensure votes in the upcoming
election.
Clark seems to be trying to
show that he can balance the
debt without decreasing access

to crucial services such as education. Yet the fact remains that
during the NDP’s term in office,
the debt has risen by almost 60%.
Also, this is the second time
that the NDP has announced
a
tuition fee freeze. The first was
in 1992, and tuition has risen
25% in the province
since that
announcement.
Clark himself
acknowledges that the freeze may
not carry into next year, as
he is anticipating more cuts
in federal transfer
payments.
It is hard to interpret
this situation.
Inevitably,
the facts speak for themselves, and they are in
sharp contrast to Clark’s
stated intentions.
Unfortunately,
as he
prepares for re-election,
it
is difficult to imagine that Clark
intends his attempt at a tuition
freeze as anything more than a
plea for voter sympathy.
Regardless of his intentions,
however, students in British Columbia are enjoying one more
year of accessible, affordable education.

dent affairs, such as involvement
in orientation and the funding of
student initiatives, which haven’t
been placed anywhere yet.” She
noted that while many were
placed under the Associate Provost, Human Resources,
others
weren’t mentioned anywhere.
A final concern Pak has is
that the mandate of the Director
of Business Operations
includes
“investigatingotherrevenue-generating and cost-saving
opportunities,” which raises some scary
possibilities
for students.
Pak
wondered if “the focus of ancillary enterprises
will continue to
be non-profit
or move to revenue
generation ?“Givcn the monopolies many of these enterprises
have, such as Food Services, the
Bookstore,
and Housing
Residences, it is possible that students will lose out should the
university
shift to a profit focus
in these areas.
Related to that concern was
the placement
of Housing and
Residences
under the Business
Operations
portfolio.
“What
about the student life aspect of
residence,” Pak questioned, “will
it be lost.?”

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e are all concerned with
our own personal safety
and modifying
our behav iour in such a way as to keep the
risk of personal .harm at a minimum. Recently, major institutions
have been expected to become more
active leaders in ensuring
their
places of work or study (as with a
university)
are safe, with the emphasis on the prevention
of crime
and sexual assaults as well as physical hazards.
In the past, the level of safety
on campus was unclear, therefore,
to address this problem the universily set up a Personal Safely Committee (USC). It originally began in
the spring of 1991 as an ad hoc
Women’s
Safety Committee
and
soon developed into the PSC when
it became obvious that its concerns
involved
pertinent
issues to all
members of the campus community. In the past 3 years it has
sponsored
Campus Safety Audits
with the intent of identifying
and
addressing
the personal safety ot
students, staff, tkulty
and visitors
on campus
and the surrounding
areas.
While the term personal safety
could be interpreted
several ways,
one definition could be ‘the feeling
of knowing
that neither physical
nor psychological
harm will be
brought againstoneselfbyanother.’
The purpose of the PSC is to

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ensure that all areas on campus are
safe. To do this the committee coordinators have relied on the help of
volunteers
to perform Safety Audits, One night was selected when
all the volunteers
could meet and,
forming
several smaller groups,
they were assigned a specific area
of campus to audit. Each group had
a leader who recorded the concerns
and conclusions
of the group.
As the audit team walked
through campus they were considering in detail the light levels, pathway sightlines,
accessibility
of
emergency
phone help lines, areas
of access for physically
challenged
students, potential locations from
which a pedestrian might be taken
by surprise and any other factors of
the campus set up which could
affect the feeling of personal safety.
Suggestions made by previous
safety audits have resulted in several consequential
changes. Help
lines have been installed near the
Village I and I1 residences,
the
North Campus playing fields and
the parking lot behind the Minota
Hagey residence.
Through
improved landscape maintenance
pedestrian sightlines
have been upgraded near parking lots E3 and C,
the PAS building,
East Campus
Hall and pathways
near the ES
building
and the Federated
and
Affiliated
Colleges. Lighting
has
been increased
around the ESC
building, the Physics building, the
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the other resulting campus improvements were an increase in signage
and better maintenance
of pathways.
The findings of this November’s audit were submitted
to the
Personal Safety Committee,
the
Associate
Provost for Student Affairs Peter Hopkins and the appropriate departments
for consideration by the audit coordinators
Jane
Dietrich and Randall Sieffert. Some

of the findings were that the underneath of stairs in the engineering
buildings should be blocked off or
should at least be more well lit and
that both the engineering
and science buildings should have secured
light switches which limit public
access to them. It was also found
that the area near theW aterloo Tennis Club should have increased
lighting and more signs indicaring, among other things, the fenced
in areas which have no exits. The
auditors also saw that the area between the Student Life Centre and
the PAC should have better Iight-

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They also suggested that a Help
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FED Hall to V2.
Often those of us on campus
become aware of existing personal
safety issues but might be uncertain
where to direct our concerns This is
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However,
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with sensitive issues
on campus; to become more actively involved with the PSC.
It is hoped that the committee
will maintain itself as a monitoring
program
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gives
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groups on campus the opportunity
to raise concerns with the knowIedge that someone is listening and
will take appropriate
steps to see
that these concerns are addressed.
Thecurrent VPUA Rose Bilicic
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a focus
into persona1 safety issues across
campus, as well as an information
link between
departments
concemed with these issues. For these
reasons it is essentiaJ that this committee continues to exist.”
The Director of Safety, Kevin
Stewart agrees and says that “although there are other safety committees on campus, it is important
to have a committee like this which
has as its focus personal safety and
security issues.”

Actions toward this goal began this
term with the publication
of articles in campus newspapers
as well
as presentations
given to the Village Councils.
Both of these actions served to make the campus
community
aware of where to direct concerns about personal safety.
By direct contact with various student, staff and faculty organizations, they believe that a dual purpose is served; increasing access to
themselves
and increasing
awareness of the Personal Safety Commi ttee.
But with all of the changes that
the university
has recently
gone
through, it is somewhat uncertain
as to which direction the committee will continue. The chair of the
committee
and Associate
Provost
for Student Affairs Peter Hopkins
is taking early retirement.
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The Fed Horoscope
**the psychic
Mumby
**the psychic
Mumhy
does nut
claim to actually be psychic - but
very helpful!

Virgo (August 22September
22)
You wilt be leaving town - summer
job - co-op... You don’t want to cut
yourself off completely
to Waterloo. Perhaps you should consider
becoming
a Watpub Coordinator
for your new town. If you dropped
by the Fed Office, I sense they could
lead you in the right direction.

Aries (Much
21-April
19)
Your Landlord/Lady
has got you
down.
Don’t let him/her get the
best oi‘ you.
Give the Legal Resource Office a call at X88-4634.
They have many of the answers you
will need in the next few weeks.
Taurus (April Z&May
20)
The term is ending, you arc keling
a little stressed. Perhaps a night
celebrating
is in order! Relieve
some tension at the “It’s All
Over” night at Fed Hall on Friday March 24th, featuring
the
Wax Jungle Alliance.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
The weekend of June 14-15 is
going to be Your Lucky Weekend! Oh - lucky for you - it is
also Summerfest
I. You will
have fun, you will enjoy, you
will return to Waterloo for part I
of the biggest party of the Summer.

Libra (September 23-iktuber
22)
You may have a friend wh? needs
you now. If you don’t have all the
answers, don’t be afraid to get them
from someone else. There is lots of

Drop by the Fed
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psychic Mumby
senses that they
could lead you in
the right
direction!

Cancer (June 21-July 22)
You Rock! You are so talented
- and people are beginning to notice! You should participate in the
Turnkey’s
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It is
Thursday March 28th, in the afternoon. Contact the Turnkey Desk at
888-4434.
Leo (July 2I-August
22)
As a Leo, you will be finding yourself in argumentative
situations in
the coming weeks. Peer Mediation
is the peer service for you. My
psychic
vibes tell me that their
number is 888-4567
x 5952 and
they would be glad to help. They
can mediate anything!

help available: Peer Health Education & Peer Academic
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Scorpio
(October
234Vovember
20
You are going to be in Waterloo for
the summer, and you want to make
a difference.
One of the biggest
volunteer
positions on campus is
open! You could be the coordinator of the K-W Canada Day celebrations.
Contact Lynne at the
Fed Office.

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Sagittarius
(November
22-December 21)
You will be very busy this week.
Don’t skip meals!
You can get
quick,
cheap
meals from
the
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Monday-Friday
12 pm - 12 am.
Just like the C&D’s
that we all
know and love, they don’t accept
the Watc<ard, but it is super affordable !
Capricorn
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19)
Travel is in J/our immediate future.
For $17 return, perhaps the Fed
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is your best bet.
Youknowbestifperhapsamove
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one way ticket toToronto.
Guide
yourself to the SLC and get yourself on one of these Friday afternoon busses.
Aquan’us
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You will have many late nights
in the next weekschool, debt,
that special someone...
Keep in
mind that you always have someone to talk. The PALS phone
line is operated by trained volunteers who will listen to you.
The lines are staffed from 6pm Midnight
7 days a week.
Give
them a call at 888-4860.
Pisces (February
I9-March
21)
Your hunger for student politics is
feasting on this next week! There
is a Students’
Council
meeting
Sunday the 24th in NH 3004, and
the Federation
of Students’ General Meeting is Tuesday the 26th,
in the Multi-Purpose
Room, SLC.
You should attend both. You need
to have your strong opinions appreciated. There may even be a council seat open in your faculty. Again
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October Lilly passed away as a result of his injuries.
Lilly had been President of Village 2 for the 1992 1993 school year.
This summer, a tree will be planted at Village 2 in
memory of John Lilly. Lilly’s friends are taking a
collection for a commorative plaque to accompany the
tree.
If you would like to contribute to the collection,
contact Julie Primeau at the Federation of Students
Office, x4042.

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ast June, Jaswant
Singh
Khalra, a middle-aged
softspoken Human Rights activist from India, spoke in the Parliament Buildings
of Canada on
the on-going Human Rights abuses
by police and paramilitary
forces in
the Indian state of Punjab. A few
months later, upon his return, he
was abducted by the police and has
not been seen since.
In order to make the general
university
community
aware about
the tragic circumstances
surrounding the fate of Jaswant
Singh
KhaIra, a fate that has befallen
countless other Human Rights and
Civil Liberties
activists in India,

the University
of Waterloo
Amnesty International
Club and Sikh
Students Association
are co-sponsoring a special “Khalra Day” on
March 27th.
Mr. Khalra, was the General
Secretary
of the Human Rights
Wing of the Sharomani Akali Dal,
the pre-eminent
Sikh party in Punjab, India. He was investigating
the
wide-spread
“disappearances”
of
Sikhs at the hands of police forces
in the state. This investigation
had
uncovered
the illegal mass-cremation grounds used by the police to
eliminate
over 25,000
“disappeared” civilians.
The Tarn Taran (district
of
Punjab) Police force was cited by
Mr. Khalra as having been the
source of at least 6,000 of these
extra-judicial
killings.
In January 1995, Mr. Khalra
formally
presented
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Khalra was
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ground near you.
Phase one of a plan to build the
world’s
first permanent
underground storage facility
for spent
nuclear
fuel is now underway.
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited,
a crown corporation
established to
investigate all facets of our nuclear
power program,
is holding public
hearings in its attempt to get its
proposal
approved
by Canada’s
environment
minister.
The plan, which has thus far
cost $SOO million and taken over
fifteen years to research, involves
storing bundles of radioactive waste
in a giant vault several hundred
metres deep in the Canadian shield.
The research has been paid for
by the federal government,
Ontario
I-Iydro and foreign governments
for
whom AECL does research, said
Ken Dormouth, director of AECL’s
nuclear
fuel waste management
program. A specific site has not yet
been chosen.

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Dan Rainham of the University of Waterloo’s
Student Nuclear
Action Group led the attack on the
proposal saying that the public is
iIl-informed
about Canada’s
nuclear plans and that the proposal
shoufd be rejected. Rainham added
that the government
should review
the very idea of using nuclear power
to generate electricity.
“Sustainability
is a major concern,” he said. “We can’t see any
possibility ofsustainability
with the
continued
use of nuclear power.
We want to see the scope of the
hearings expanded to include the
decommissioning
of nuclear powered electrical plants.”
Terri-Lynn
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the underground
storage proposal
was accepted, we would be passing
our parents’
problems
on to our
children.
Riley also pointed out that the
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background
radiation. She said the
plan is not a solution, but merely
the “least bad way” of dealing with
radioactive
waste.
“There
are cheaper,
better,
safer and more reliable solutions.
One option that has been ignored is
not producing
nuclear waste,” she
said. “Geological
disposal is not
dealing with the root problem, it is
merely treating one symptom.”
A
further
concern
of
UWSNAG
and others is that this
disposal plan, if approved, would
give a green light to the expansion
of Canada’s
nuclear power program and to the importation
uf
radioactive
wastes from abroad.
“[By approving
this plan] we are
letting them say, OK, we have a
solution. We can continue to produce nuclear waste indefinitely.
We

don’t have a problem
anymore,”
said Riley.
Donnouth
says that AECL’s
research does not include increasing Canada’s output or the importing of foreign fuel bundles.
“The
EIS [environmental
impact study]
deals only with Canadian waste.
The study looks at five, seven and a
half, and IO million
[fuel] bundles,” he said.
But Riley points out that if the
storage method is declared safe, the
Free Trade Agreement will force us
to accept radiation from our southem neighbours.
“Because of Free
Trade we can’t close the [United]
States out. By law we would have to
Jet it in,” she said.
TEN

YEAR

DELAY

Currently
there are 900,000
used fuel bundles stored in Canada,
the majority of which are stored in
large tanks of heavy water at the
Bruce and Pickering Nuclear plants
in Southern Ontario. Less than five
percent of our nuclear waste is in
dry storage, an option only considered for waste over six years old.
The burial proposal deals only
with cooled waste, minimum
ten
years old.
Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility says that this ten year delay
is the crucial weakness of the burial
plan.
He said that the amount of
radioactive
waste being produced
is
increasing
each
year
exponentially.
That, he said, combined with the ten year delay between use and burial will result in
an ever increasing amount of waste
being stored on the surface.
“We’re not talking about the
disposal of nuclear waste, we are
talking about the perpetual maintaining of nuclear waste and the
continued
expanding
of the nuclear power industry,”
he added.
“AECL wants a piece of paper
that says ‘this is safe’ and then they
can go ahead and build and sell
power plants to their -heart’s content,” said Edwards. “It would be
morally
wrong for us to support
this proposal because this proposal
is founded
on hypocrisy,
it is
founded on dishonesty.”
Dormouth
compounded
those
concerns when he said that ten year
minimum was a low estimate. “That
is a low number. The average age of
the fuel [being buried] would be
over that,” he said.
He also said that the process of
site selection and preparation
will
take at least 20 years, meaning no
waste bundles will be placed underground until at least 2016. This
will necessitate the continue building and maintenance
of above
ground
storage facilities
indefinitely.
UNHEARD

VOICES

Andrea Ritchie of the National
Action Committee on the Status of
Women introduced the concerns of
the aboriginal
people and others
who live on the Canadian Shield.

“The EIS ignores the groups of
people who are most susceptible to
negative effects, namely women and
aboriginal peoples,” she said.
According
to Ritchie, for some
forms of cancer, women are three
times more susceptible
than men

spent discussing
the specific concerns of aboriginal people. Ritchie
said this was typical of how the
industry has treated native people
in the past. “Tlhe aboriginal people
have suffered the effects ofresource
extraction
while not receiving any
of the benefits,” she said.
The second phase of hearings
will take pIace in June and will
discuss details of the process such
as the depth of the vault, appropriate soil types a.nd thickness of concrete barriers.
In the Autumn of 1496 the
final public sessions will be held in
communities
near proposed burial
sites.
Despite alI her concerns about
the hearing process and her own
innate pessimism,
Riley still believes the project can be halted.
She says that while millions of
dollars and years of research have
gone into the plan, it still might be
stopped the same way it was in
Britain and America-by
loud public opposition,

money as has already been done in
Japan. She dismissed these offers
saying that people’s health and heritage were not for sale.
AECL insists that host communities will be chosen on a volunteer basis only.

Vf the storage method is
declared safe, the Free Trade
Agreement willforce us to

accept radiation from the
United States for disposal in
the Canadian shield. ”
when exposed to the same levels of
radiation. She said the nuclear industry was trying to buy the support
of rural communities
with promises of jobs and compensation

Ritchie echoed Riley’s critique
of the EIS saying that of the 345page document, only 12 pages were
dedicated to medical concerns and
a mere one and a half pages was

SENATE UNDERGRADUATE
STUDENT ELECTSON
Due to irregularities
at a number
of polling stations,
the
February
15 vote for Arts and At-large
student Senators
has
been declared
invalid. There will be a re-vote.
The voting
process
will be as follows:
Ballots will be mailed the week of March
18, 1396 to co-op
students.
An on-campus
vote will be held in conjunction
with
the Engineering
undergraduate
student by-election
on March
28, 1996 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at which time on-campus
ballots will be sealed. These ballots will be counted with the
mail-out ballots which are due in the Secretariat
by 4 p.m. on
April 17, 1996.
Brief statements/profiles
based on information
provided
by
the candidates
are reproduced
below;

Research, according to a typical dictionary
definition, is “scholarly investigation
and study aiming to add to the sum of knowledge
in some specific branch”.
In this,
research, both in its technical and
social expressions,
has become the
preserve of experts.
Although research and public
interest research may both be performing the task of problem posing
and problem resolution,
the sirnilarity ends with the words. The way
WHRG
endeavours
to pose problems and the way we encourage the
struggle for resolution
is very different from the research that is the
domain of experts. In fact, it would
be more accurate
for us to talk
about “social investigation”
rather
than research.
We are not interested per se in
adding to the sum of knowledge
*‘knowledge
for knowledge
sake”
has little place in WPIRG. Instead
our investigations
are goal directed;
they imply action. In this sense our
research is a politically
motivated
and directed undertaking
both in
terms of the “problem posing” and
“problem
resolution”
stages. lt is
not neutral or value-free,
but then
again no research is neutral or
value-free.
Typically
the process of research follows from a definition of
the problem, to the hypothesis
f’ormalion, to the instrument construction, to data collection,
and finally
to data interpretation.
In every stage
of this process choices are being
made and values being expressed.
In an automobile
research department, the choice between develop-

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ing a thinner metal alloy for automobiles as opposed to designing
safe cars has more to do with political valuations
than it has with the
nature of engineering
research.
Research is always, and by logical necessity, based on moral and
political
valuations.
In WPIRG,
unlike the “academy”,
we are simply obliged to account for our values explicitly.
We should not be
concerned
that public interest research is neither neutral or valuefree, our only concern should be its
reliability
and its integrity.
Four of the most important
features of Public Interest Research
is its expository
nature, its documenting style, its analytic perspective, and its motivating
interest.
1. Public interest research is
expository
in so far as it brings out
into the open what was otherwise
hidden or only partially revealed.
In contemporary
society knowledge
is not common
property,
instead
we live under a knowledge
monopoly.
This monopolization
of
knowledge
is preserved and maintained to the degree that information which belongs in this public
domain is held in private by the
state or the private sector, and to
the degree that information
when it
is presented is offered as discreet
and scattered units of data which
render it meaningless.
Public interest research is an
attempt to break down this knowledge monopoly.
2. Public interest research is
documentary,
which
very
simplyrefers
to the compilation
and
presentation
of factual evidence.

For WPlRG,
factual evidence refers to both “hard data” and “soft
data”. l-lard data is the explicitly
testable - the facts and figures.
Soft data is the experiential
- the
lived experience, opinions, feelings
and understandings
of those involved. This is where public interest research borrows from jourdism, not the naivete of the human
interest story, but the awareness of
people coming to grips with the
problems that confront them,
3. Public interest
research,
however,
has to go beyond being
documentary.
It has to be analytical. information
and knowledge
needs a perspective.
Public interest
research presents its documentation within an analytical
framework that roots discussions
within
a socio-economic-political
context.
A public interest analysis must deal
with the question of power, its constellations,
its exercise, its influence, and its prerogatives.
For publit interest research, the question of
power is central to any analysis and
power shouId be dealt with both in
its broad economic formations
and
also in the mechanisms
and structures by which it is mediated.
4. Finally, public interest research is motivating.
It has ;IS its
goal - change; it has its message act. It is therefore important
that
public interest research develop in
such a way that it collapses
the
traditional
split between research
and action and constitutes
in its
place a model of “action research”
that is directl,y connected with people’s efforts to preserve and change
their life support systems.

ARTS:
Surona

of thu FedtJmtiun uf
Marques
- as liaison cnwnssiuner
Studenrs, Student Crw~il representative, UW political club fuunder and
president, St. Jerume’s Student I/Gun-fed representative und St Jerome’s
Student Union first pear representative, lam experienced and eager tu take
part in developing the cruciulpulicies
in the next two years that Senate has
s~h a vi& r-o/e in. As the payers of trunsferpayment
cut backs, education
inflution and the declining job market. we musr take aI1 opportunities
possible to speak our minds. I rzvant to ensure thatyuur concerns are voiced.

-_ --- - hdrew
Wiltor
- born and raised in Ottawa; 3rd year Applied Studies
Co-q? Sociology student (minor in Economics); Dean’s Iist standing;
former Village I Dun (Spring ‘95); f urmer Federation of Students Arts Coop Rup. (1994-9.5); former Village IJ President (1993-W);
member of
ViIlagc II Ot-ientatinn Committee (I 994); member of PALS ( 1994-present)
- “Becuuse not all Senators fromOttawa are bad!”
frk
!kagga
- I am running for the position uf Arts Senator because I
dun7 think use have been well represented, krause I think 1 would do u
good jub in the positiun, and becuuse of my own personal selfish reasons.
Experiences I havp had which may be relevant tu being on the Senate
include being the Chuirpersun of the Applied Studies Student Uniunfur the
upcoming term, a volunteer on a seven munth Cunada Wurtd Youth project
in Inrionesiu, u leudership instructor al rhe National Air Cud~r Senior
Leudership School in Alberta, a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award gruldp leader,
and a holder uf some student council positions in high schuul.

AT LARGE:
Skphrn
kfour
- my name is Stephen D&ur and IZn in 3A Ekrtrid
Eniyineering. I’m running for the undergraduate
at-large sear on the
IJni~~arsity Senate. During my Universi~ career I’ve held theEnginerring
Socir~ positiuns of V.P. Finance, C & D Director and Finance Director
as ~7~11as being an Academic Rep. and Eng. Sm. Rep fur my class. I’m
interested in expanding my inwlvement to a campus-side level. Ifeel I can
best contribute as a member gfSenute since I strongly believe that you only
ger as much out of your education as you put in.
Qa~d
fi&~~~df
- a candidate that brings you: Accessibility - can be
reached through voice mail and e-mail 24 hours a day, and lives in
residence in the heart ofcampus; Experience - worked with members of the
Provincial F’arliarnPnr in the Dntariu Legislature as a Legislative Page;
Proven L+zaderhip Ability - deputy director ufa summer sailing camp$rst
year representative on the St. Jerome’s College Student Union and Fluor
Representative on the J.R. Finn House Council. Give yourself a strung
voice on the Wniversity Senute!

think the Ezra street Party will occur this year,
Lauder
is dunnin
a ~art-v on-campus?

“Oh yeah,

I live there.”
Lee-Ann Hannah
4A Kinesioiogy

“People will do what they want,
St, is a tradition?

Seaiey
English

and Ezra
Ian Rowe
2A English

by years
y hand.
m

of strumminq~

And
a midnight

every
streete

even

UYes, because the people involved
don’t
see anything
wrong with it.”
Jan Bays

“Probably.
They did
enjoy the freedom?

it before;

I guess they
Jae Choi
4B Mech

The last two weeks have seen a
whack of opinions surfacing in
Imprint’s
Forum pages in regards to
Eng Sot A’s decision to suspend the
h-on Warrior
for the remainder of the
term. Last week the rants were pretty
one-sided; a pair of letters to the
editor this week attempt to rectify
this, by rationalizing
Eng Sot’s
decision and even accusing Imprint
of a bias in the matter.
1 find the latter to be suitably
amusing, not just because bias is an
accusation
that’s been thrown at
Imprint
with startling regularity
in
the past term, but moreover because
it’s automatically
presumed that we
come to the &fence of the hard-doneby Iron Warrior against the bullies of
Eng sm.
It just isn’t true. Firstly, we don’t
have any axes to grind with Eng Sot.
Secondly, the Iron Wrrrrior has never
exactly been bosom-buddies
with
Imprint.
Indeed, in one respect or
another they’ve been putting the
screws to us in print for years. How
sweet an irony it was last week
recruiting
disgruntled
IW staffers to
volunteer for Imprint,
with a timely
rejoinder that the Feds can’t move in
and shut us down.
All smugness aside, I felt ambivalent about their fate. The staffers
volunteer a lot of time and effort for
their paper - time and effort being at
a premium for members in the
demanding engineering
faculty and they do so at no reward to
themselves.
Surely they didn’t
deserve this. But at the same time,
there is a reasonable expectation
by
Eng Sot that the paper reflect its
original intent and mandate, and the
paper liid seem to be more accurately
reflecting
an arts rag the past year
than it did an engineering
forum.
A number of engineers responded to last week’s Campus
Question on the matter by stating that
the real crisis was a lack of communication between the two parties. I
couldn’t
agree more, and it’s heartening to see the response from the Eng
Sot ‘A’ executive reprinted to the
right of this column. Although the
executive
acted within the rules, they
failed in diplomacy,
so it’s good to
see that they’re now taking account.
It would be equally wise for the
editorial staff of IW to have some of
the same self-reflection.
So where does the paper go from
here?
Thankfully,
a survey is currently
in circulation
for engineers asking
important questions about the Iron
Wurrior’s
future. The survey is a
collaboration
between the paper and
the exec, and it’s on the right track. It
asks pertinent questions, like, what
sort of paper should it be, what sort of
material is deemed appropriate,
and
what editorial control should be
placed on submissions.
I’d also like to suggest a reconsideration of how editors are either
selected or appointed. Expectations
should be stated right up front as to
what the paper’s intent and policy is,
and editors should be obligated to
uphold them. Accordingly,
the
editorial staff should be granted
honoraria each term for the time and
effort they put into the iron Wurriar.
If the Engineering
Society really
expects a professional
paper, as they
have claimed, then they should be
offering greater incentive for the best
publication
possible.

The forum pages allou members of the University of Waterloo community to present their views on various issues through letters to the editor and longer comment pieces. The
opinions expressed in columns, comment pieces, letters and olher articles are strictly those of the authors, not ofImprint. Imprint is an edilorially independent newspaper published
by imprint Publications, Waterloo, a corporation without share capital. Imprint, Student Life Centre, Room 11Ib, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1,

The Iron Warrior part II
Eng Sot ‘A’ Executive responds

0

n March 11,19X1, the Executive
of the Engineering Society suspended the publication of the
Iron Warrior, the Magazine of the Engineering Society, for the one remaining
issue of the term. Although this decision
was extreme, it was not entered upon
lightly. The Iron Warrior has been a
concern since the Fall of 1994 for both the
current and past executives. The decision
to halt publication was in no way intended to accuse or penalize the members
of the Zrun Warrior
staff, but to affect a
change in the organization of the paper.

tors of the paper were not notified in time
to inform staff members prior to general
distribution of this letter. This act has
demonstrated a clear lack of foresight and
consideration on the part of the executive
for the men and women who volunteer
their time to compile the Iron Warrior.

resulting implications.
During a meeting held on March 18
between the Iron Warrior
staff and the
Engineering Society executive, several
strides were made to begin the process of

At this time, we, the executive, wish
to apologize for the way in which this
decision was implemented and the manner in which Iron Warrior
staff were
informed of the situation. As it stands, on
the morning of March 11,1996, a public

A second point which must be addressed, is the public announcement that
the doors to the Iron Warrior
office had
been locked and any person wishing to
retrieve
personal
belongings within the
office must request the door be opened by
a member of the executive. The intention
of this action was to preserve security as
a policy, and not to insult the credibility
of the staff members. Unfortunately, this
public statement had the effect of implying the members of the Zron Warrior
staff to be untrustworthy as individuals.

whole. This includes the circulation of a
public survey, designed jointly by members of the Iron Warrior
staff and the
executive, to poll the concerns and opinions of engineering students at large. The
results of this survey will be used to aid in
the efforts presently underway to draft an
editorial policy/mission statement for the

letter was issued outlining
the major reasons for the halt in publication. The edi-

We sincerely
making
this

link

Sincerely,
The Engineering
Jason Varr Dyk
President

apologize

to the staff

for

action public and for the

improving
and refocusing
the Iron Wurrior to reflect the res,olve of the members
of the Engineering Student Society as a

Iron

Warrior.

An additional point is the strengthening of the bridge of communication between the h-on Warrioreditorial staff and
the Engineering Society Executive. This
is crucial

to the continued

Society ‘A’ Executive:
Tonya Sulley
VP External

Keith Wace
VP Finance

growth

and success of both parties involved.

Nancy Baggio
VP Internal

Imprint welcomes letters to the editor from students and all members of the community. Letters should be 500 words or less, typed and double-spaced or in electronic form, and have the author’s name, signature, address and
phone Thurber for verification. Letters rcccived via electronic mail must be verified with a signature. All material is subject to editing for brevity and clarity. The editor reserves the right to refuse to publish lcttcrs or articles
which are judged to be libellous or discriminatory on the basis of gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. Opinions expressed are those or the individuals and not of Imprint.

Iron Warrior
opinions
slanted
Tu the Editor,
In reading last week’s Imprint,
opinions expressed regarding the
suspension of thclrnn Warrior were
very one sided. Yes, the issues could
have been handled in a better manner, however, there are many factors that led to the ultimate decision. Imprint’s
coverage last week
would tell the uninformed
reader
that the decision was entirely due to
the most recent issue of the 1r0n
Wan-ior. This was the “straw that
broke the camel’s back.” This was
not a rash and hasty action, but
more the result of ongoing conflicts
between the Engineering
Society
and the Iron Warrior editors. This
last statement I say with irony since
the Iron Warrior has always been a
part of the Engineering
Society. As
former Eng Sot Executive,
we feel
that people should be aware ofsome
background
on the Iron Wurrior.
As it clearly states on the front
cover of each issue, the Iron Warriur is “the Magazine of the University of Waterloo
Engineering
Society.”
The Iron Warrior should
serve as both an information
forum
and a medium to express opinions
for engineering
students. The current executive
felt that the editors
of the iron Warrior
did not adequately represent this. This is a
signi tIcant difference
from other
engineering
papers, such as the
Toike Oike at II of T. The Iron
Wurrior has always been published
as a much more professional
paper.
We’re not saying that Waterloo is
better than al1 other schools (we let
Muclenn ‘s do that), we just do
things a little differently.
That’s a
fact. However, just like other engineering publications,
theIron Warrior is distributed
to every engineering society in Canada. In addition, il is read by each Dean of
Engineering
at each of these
schools. Thus, we should be aware
that everything
that is published in
the Iron Wurrior not only reflects
on the staffand editors of the paper,
but also the entire engineering student population and faculty. This
applies not only within the University of Waterloo, but nationwide!
It is important to note that due
to the fact that engineering at Waterloo is co-op only, there are two
distinct societies at Waterloo - A
Society and B Society, The iron
Warrior has not been canned, but is
has been suspended on A Society
for the remainder of this term. This
means that the decision was not a
permanent removal of the paper. A
referendum
would be more appropriate to do that. It is unfortunate
that the affects of this will reflect
upon the B Sot paper in the
upcoming summer months, but the
paper in the summer will consist of
entirely different editors and staff.
Shingo Yuki and Campbell
McConnell
stated that “the Iron
Warrior staff is the work of amateur volunteers.”
We would like to

note that the Engineering
Society
executive
is also amateur volunteers. We agree “that the [Iron
Warrior] should be run for the students”. I think that that is what the
executive meant by stating that “the
paper has always been run in conjunction with the Society and for
the Society.”
The Society IS the
students.
The students ARE the
Society. The executive is elected to
represent the society.
Axe1 Noriega stated that this
was not a popularity
contest. It is
clear to us that the executive
was
aware of this. If popularity
was
their main concern, they would not
have taken this action. As executive in the last summer term, we
were encouraged to “shut [the iron
Warrior]
down.” At the time, we
chose not to, hoping that any problems in the summer would resolve
themselves with new editors in the
following
term.
It is perhaps unfair to the staff
of the Iron Warrior,
when this is
more an issue between the editors
and the executive.
However,
it is
interesting
that feedback
in last
week’s Imprint came fromIW staff
and not the editors themselves.
To state that the Iron Warrior
“no longer serves as a propaganda
tool for the Engineering Society” is
a bad choice of words. Although
Funk & Wagnalls
defines propaganda as “any selection of facts,
ideas or allegations
forming
the
basis of such effort,”
perhaps a
better term would have been “promotion”
or “information
forum.”
This is not the sole purpose of the
Iron Warrior, but it should always
be available
to the executive
fo
publicize events that the Engineering Society organizes. There have
been a number of times when the
Iron Warrior
was counted on to
publicize
events, and articles or
“ads” were not published due to a
lack of space, even though they
were submitted on time.
Please consider
this when
forming your opinion in this matter. We encourage
you to take a
look at other recent issues in the
last two years, from both A Sot and
I3 sot.
To conclude, we would like to
say that sooner or later something
was going to happen. Although it is
unfortunate
that it happened this
way, we support the Engineering
Society executive in their decision.
We believe that ultimately this will
he beneficial to the Iron Warrior
and we look forward to reading a
quality engineering
student publication in the near future.

the Imprint
in the last issue (vol.
18, #3 1). I would like to know why
all of the above appear to be a onesided commentary.
I realize that
most people (if not all) in the Imprint would view the shutdown of
the Engineering
Society paper as
not being a good thing, but don’t
you think that you sliould have
made an effort to show both sides of
the story? The first article that I
read sounded very negative about
the entire situation.
The Campus
Question featured 8 people who all
decried the situation, with not one
person showing any support whatsoever for the action. The editorial
condemned
the action and the 3
letters to the editor featured (regarding the “Iron Curtain”)
were
all opinions
of people that were
obviously
pissed off with the executive. I can understand the editorial (especially
coming from another campus newspaper),
but why
is there not one indication
of any
support for the action shown? I
would have expected the Imprint
to make more of an effort to show
both sides of the story, either with
more comments
from the Engineering Society executive or with a
letter to the editor showing a dif’ferent side of the issue. By putting
such a negative slant on all the
information
in Imprint,
you seem
to me to be trying to influence the
way people think rather than letting people make their own decisions with an unbiased view.

None of the opinions here are I~Jprint editoriuis;
Imprint editorials
must be clearly speci&d
us such
(and, indeed, there hasn’t been an
Imprint
editorial
in the last >ve
years).
We don ‘t actively
solicit
opinions thatjit our narrow viewpoints &her (we write those uurselves, with our individual
names
attuched),
but instead publish the
opinions that are forwarded
to us.
Last week we ran an opinion piece
written by two iron Warrior stu@
ers; the writers were disgruntled,
but they were unfailing/y fair. Eng
Sot A’s reply runs this week. The
three letters published
were the
only ones we received,* we are more
than willing to run letters uf contraq) opiniorz, but none in this speclfic case came furth. Likewise, the
normal procedure jtir the Campus
Question is to ask approximately
I2 people, and then find a reasonable variance and balance to arrive at the selected 8. The consensus in this particular
question was
overwhelmingly
one-sided,
a literul shutout.
Where balance was
required was with the news article,
and in this instance the writerpulled
ofjl-a thoroughly
credible job. )

--Murk

Wusch ko wski

Tu the Editor,

(Editors

’ note:

under
the
rest of the Forum section,is an
open j&urn for u/I UW students.

the L~fcourt

by

The space

cartoon,

Pete

as with

Nesbitt

Eat well,
stay fit,
die anyway
,4s the great Jello Biafra once
said, “Yawwwn.”
Has anyone noticed that the whole “smoking
is
evil” campaign would be more fit-

Butch Dyke
Barbie
TO the Editor,
It’s kinda the nineties, kinda
hip and open-minded
to hint that
Barbie did dig Malibu Stacey’s firm
tanned body., as was done in a recent edition of Imprint.
But what
if Ken wasn’t included? What if it
was spiritual and raw all at once? If
it was meaningful?
The following
is a bedtime story for the Gay Nineties:
Once upon a patriarchal metanarrative there existed a woman on
the outskirts ofacceptableplot-line.
She is Butch Dyke Barbie. But her
name is not Elarbie at all. Her name
is C.J. The problem with C.J. is that

-John
Camp&ell
and Craeme Skinner

Iron

Warrior

opinions

slanted

#2

TO the Editor,
This letter is in regards to the
article, the campus question,
the
editorial and the letters sent into

Spacek

ting back in high school? For God’s
sake, people, we’re all adults (?)
here, or at least the government
thinks we are. Remember, they do
let us vote.
No one has failed to grasp the
concept that smoking is indeed unhealthy. We don’t do it because
there’s vitamin C in there! We don’t
need Awfully
Healthy
Students,
Health Majors and their ilk telling
us we’re slowly killing ourselves.
We know, amd we’re enjoying
it
(exhales).
The poi:nt is, this whole debate
is moot. All ofus have been through
the “Smoking’s
going to kill you”
indoctrination
of high school dazegone-by ancl quite frankly,
we’re
sick of it being bashed into our
skulls
with monotonous
vehemence.
This is a “free country,”
or so
we’re constantly
told, and if the
Imprint
wants to sell advertising
space to a legal, above-board
company, even ifit does sell cigarettes,
it should be able to without being
attacked.
Are Molson ads causing legions of drunkards
around campus, except perhaps in Engineering and Math? I Think Got! (Note:
emphysema
added grin.)
The presence
of a cigarette
advertisement
does not force or
obligate the reader to smoke, rather
it presents an option that said freethinking
reader is fully able to
choose should s/he decide. If advertising was truly as stong a motivator as some seem to think, I’d be
driving my new Neon (“Hi!“) with
$750 grad rebate, and a gutsy 132
hp engine, completely
cured of my
acne, with a $2099 (plus tax)
Pentium from Vision Computer
Systems, on my way to Travelcuts
for the Official Airline Seat Sale -sucking down a Gino’s Pizza Mega
Meal for $29.99 (coupon expires
March 22, 1996 - not valid with
other offers)..
I’m not.
Whoops! There goes my Cantel
Amigo pager with $10 mail-in rebate...

Batman

vs. The

Steak

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herself Petra and she speaks to the
Barbies about the politics ofpower,
silence, and control. She explains
how they are moulded, mass-produced and programmed
to say
“Math is hard.” She understands
that Lesbian Barbie is invisible
because she has a limited wardrobe. Capitalism subsists on accessories. That is why Barbie’s
hot
pink bodice must, must, must be
accompanied
by matching
heels.
There is always something new you
need to own to feel complete.
So
when Heterosexist
Pig Ken grabs
her arm with “Hey baby, I know
what you need,”
Petra knows
enough to take her Birks and walk
away, where C.J. would put her
steel-toed twelve holes to work. But
that is not the way, for he too is
moulded (the poor guy has underwear permanently
etched into his
body.) He watches his cousin G.1.
Joe programmed
to grunt “Kill!
Kili!” and he is lost too though he’d
never admit it or stop for directions.
“We are warriors,”
says Petra.
“It’s time to rip off the rose-coloured glasses. We must fight with

she did not sell very well, despite
the authentic welding
outfit and
strap-on
dildo (batteries
not included of course and her Harley’s
sold separately).
No, with her
shaved head and meaty thighs Butch
Dyke Barbie just didn’t sell. Since
that is all that counts, she was
stuffed back in box on a dusty bottom shelf. But C.J. would not be
marginalized.
She hopped on her
hog and spread her wild streak
throughout
the Barbie population.
With one lash of her tongue the
Barbies’
immobile
plastic shells
would melt and they would sprout. ..
nipples... body hair... labia... pubes
.*-sweat glands. ., and even a big
bad anatomically
correct
clit
(PANIC!
They may demand more
than bonding out of sex). Yes, the
Barb&s became messy and beautiful flesh.
Meanwhile
Lesbian-Feminist
Barbie didn’t even have to touch
them to transform them. Her words
were enough (lesbians have such
cunning linguistics you know). Her
name is not Barbie either. She calls

Teacher Train at University of
Western Sydney, Australia!
me-year Primary and Secondary
qualifications that allow you to teach
in Ontario
3 or 4 year graduates

the weapons that set us apart in the
first place: our words, mouths,
tongues, voices. To my sisters of
the flesh 1 say this: Fight on! That
we may all lick happily ever afier.”
(Like all such tales this story
perpetuates
stereotypes which obviously do not reflect the diversity
of humanity.)

IMPRINT,

In his March 15 letter to Imprint (“Sick of excuses”)
Brent
Fraser whines about the Co-op program at UW and takes shots at
“math graduates from Brock” and
“Western
business students.”
He
then lowers himself further with
his comment “*.. the retirement
of
Brock Fuller was the best thing to
happen to AHS Co-op.” In light of
University
cutbacks and tough job
markets, I think a more accurate
statement would be that the very
worst thing that could happen to
AHS Co-op would be to lose someone like Mr. Fuller. Do you honestly think that losing someone with
his knowledge
and experience will
increase the 35% placement rate in
your faculty?
Perhaps you need a
math graduate from Bruck or a
Western business student to explain the logic here.
During my four years here at
UW the Co-op Department
has
helped me find 5 of my 6 jobs.
Each has been challenging
and rewarding
in terms of experience,
travel and pay, making the Co-op
fee I pay each term an afterthought.
The people in the Co-op Department are the reason that many selfsufficient
UW students graduate

debt-f?ee with lots to offer industry
in the way of marketable
skills.
Granted, Co-op’s performance
may
not always look good when stated
in terms of placement
rates, but
that’s only because of assholes like
Brent Fraser who, due to a lack of
responsibility
and initiative, would
rather blame someone else for their
problems.
Furthermore,
your comment
“...I don’t think things will change
until students begin dropping out
of co-op...” would be better kept to
yourself,
Mr. Fraser.
Instead of
tainting Co-op in the eyes of first
and second year students who will
only benefit from this program,
why don’t YOU drop out ofCo-op?
Not only would this make way for
those with something
positive to
contribute to the program, it would
also
spare
employers
any
(Bingeman Park and otherwise)
the
opportunity
to assume that all Waterloo students share your shitty
attitude, because quite frankly, we
don’t. And another thing, if you
had bothered to consult with the
math grads from Brock you might
have realized that Co-op’s placement rate would only increase if
students were to drop out of the
program. So let’s turn the brain on
next time we decide to speak, okay?
On behalf of the rest of the
students at this University
who do
not share Mr. Fraser’s piss poor
attitude, I would like to apologize
to Mr. Fuller and any other members of the Co-op Department
who
may have been offended by his comments. Your efforts are greatly appreciated
and you are the reason
that many of the students graduating this May have full-time jobs
waiting for them.
And Mr. Fraser, let me say that
your decision to sign your name
“Brent Fraser -3A
Honours Unemployed” was greatly appreciated
by the rest of us in the Kinesiology
Department
who don’t care to be

The actions of the OPP riot
squad at the Ontario legislature on
Monday were disgusting. Though I
do not support the OPSEU strike, I
do support their democratic right to
nonviolent
protest. Unfortunately,
the protest was marred by extreme
and unwarranted
violence, but not
from the protestors. The UPP went
out to “whack ‘em and stack ‘em”
as Paul Walter, head of the Metro
Toronto
Police Association
said,
and as far as I can tell, this is all too
true.
It should never be the case that
two police forces end up taking
sides in a dispute. Both should be
impartial, but that was not the case
Monday. Metro cops actually
had
to defend protesters from the OPP
riot squad.
Granted, Metro cops are not
impartial.
They have had their
grievances with the Harris govemment, and in the early days of the
strike, some officers went as far as
to say that they would probably be
too busy to defend scabs who were
getting assaulted.
However,
on
Monday
the cops did what they
should have done: protected some

innocent people from getting the
shit beaten out of them.
The protestors
did prevent
MPPs from entering the legislature
on Monday,
but this doesn’t even
nearly justify the OPP riot squad
running into the pickets with such
violent intentions. There were options. An application for an injunction against the pickets
(which
would have made it legal to remove
the strikers from the entrances to
the legislature) was before the courts
and not long afier the ugly attack by
the OPP, was granted. And even if
it had not been, I find it hard to
believe that there was no way to get
MPP’s into the building without
leaving bleeding unconscious
bodies behind them.
Of course, I didn’t seethe whole
thing, I saw only what the media
allowed me to see. However, one of
the videoclips X saw remains crystal
clear in my mind. An old man,
small and frail, is confronted
by an
OPP riot squad officer in till riot
gear. The officer, without seeming
to try any other method to more
peacefUlly
resolve the situation,
smashes his shield into the old man.

-Melissa
Maedonald
and Michelle Pruuse

Sick of
complainers
To the Editur,

Friday, March 22, 1996

associated with you and your shitty
attitude. Thanks for being so considerate of others.
Now if, by
chance, you would like to change
that to read. “Brent Fraser - 3A
Honours Employed”
there is a good
chance that you could do so. I’ll
leave it to you to figure out what
sort of changes are necessary . . .
let’s call it a little exercise in initiative.
-Mutt
Metcaffe
4B Co-op h?n/Ergonomics

Sick of
excuses
To the Editor,
We are writing in response to
Brent Fraser’s letter titled “Sick of
Excuses.”
At SAC we share your
anger and frustration
with the coop process. We try to act on it.
We would like to clarify a couple of points, however, since one of
our articles was used as a key criticism in his (argument.
Criticizing
the Co-op Department for only having a 350/b employment
of AHS students might
be akin to criticizing
a Nutrition
course for having a 35% Mid-ten-n
instead of a 50% mid-term. Different faculties have different target
ranges for first-round
employment.
First-rounds
attract different types
of employers than second rounds.
Large Multi-nationals
or Major
Accounting
Firms tend to prefer
first rounds. Medium size employers tend to prefer second rounds.
First-rounds,
although
it occurs
first, does not necessarily
have the
best jobs. Thus, the employment
rate at the end of first rounds may
not reflect Co-op Department
success or failure. It may simply mean
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I would be very interested in
seeing interviews with some of the
OPP offLzersS involved. 1 would really like to hear how they explain
injuring
unarmed
people. Most
likely, they’d come up with something like they were just following
orders, but I didn’t buy it when the
Nazis said it!, and I wouldn’t buy it
now. There comes a point where
adults have to be expected to decide
that what the:y are doing is wrong.
This has set an ugly precedent.
If the OPP riot squad gets off scat
free, then they will be fi-ee to attack
protesters in the future. Also, politicians have seen that if they want
a little retribution
for any inconveniences they have suffered due to
a strike, the,y have an quick and
easy .method.

Additionally,
the threat of violence having, been realized greatly
increases the chance of violence at
demonstrations
in the titure. from
either side. One can only hope that
both the OPP and OPSEU strikers
will have the good sense to make
every effort to defuse the situation
before more blood is spilled.

IMPRINT,
Continued

Friday,
from

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page 12

employer demographics.
At SAC, we are hoping to track firstround ernploymcnt
to observe long-term
cmploymcnt
rates. For instance,
did first
rounds rtxdt
in 39% employment
last year-?
Of the question, “how many students found
their own job ?” We don’t know. Currently
such statistics are not tracked. We’re trying
to find out so that we can find out if 35%
really is a good employment
rate. We agree
3So/ seems low.
Your second major point relates to job
quality. Have the quality of co-op jobs decreased? Should they be higher? Anecdotal
evidence like what you provided abounds but is this reflective
of a trend department
wide, or in your case faculty wide? Internally, the Co-op Department
has recently
devised a 1-l 0 scale of job satisfaction
as
rated by students.
SAC has lobbied hard to
make this score public and hopes to include
them in the job description
students fill out
that appears in the Career Resource Centre.
Your battle cry, “If anyone out there has
ideas for improving
the situation, let’s hear
it,” we share. Tell us. We have a newsgroup
uw.coop.sac
for just such a discussion.
We
have an email address sac@undergrad,math
and we have Dear Co-op boxes campus wide.
If anyone has suggestions
to improve
the
situation, let’s hear it. At SAC, we Act.
As two key examples of SAC action, we
point to the Co-op Fee Review committee
which is attempting
to develop a co-op fee
structure equitable to all parties involved. A
second example, perhaps closer to the problem you describe, is the International
Trade
Student Peer Service.
International
Trade
students,
a specialization
within the Arts
Applied Studies program, are responsible for
finding their own international
jobs with
some Co-op Department
support. The service proposed will formalize student networking, allowing students to maintain and develop their own connections.
By this we do
not mean that AHS should pursue a similar
sen4x, but ifyou or anyone else has concrete
solutions to address the problem - come to
SAC. We’ll help implement them.
In regards to your personal attack on
Brock Fuller, Program Administrator
AHS,
we do know Brock is highly respected within
the Co-op Department
for his work and
dedication.
We do not know your personal
problem with him. We would caution any
student against taking such a public statement against any specific individual. There’s
a little thing called a libel suit...
If any student does have a problem with
the Co-op Department,
or with an individual
within the Co-op Department
that has not
been resolved to their satisfaction,
then come
talk to us. We will work with Administration
to reach an equitable solution.
While the Co-op Department
still has a
number of problems, we would like to point
out that the current administration,
under the
direction
of Bruce Lumsden
is remarkably
pro-student.
We would even go so far as to
suggest that Bruce Lumsden is the most prostudent administrator
on campus. Problems
can be fixed and he does listen.
There’s been a basic theme to this letter.
At SAC, we Act. Come talk to us.
-Paul
Skippen,
SAC Co-chub,
Projects, and Kurin Cronhielm,
chair, Communications

Special
SAC Co-

Once every
22 years
To the Editor,
On the weekend of March 9-10,1996,
I
was one of the few fans which attended the
CIAU hockey finals in Toronto. I was hoping
to see quite a few UW supporters
at the
games, mainly because they were being hosted
so cIose to home. Instead, only one bus
showed up for the first game and two buses

for the second.
Don’t get me wrong, 1 want to thank the
fans that were there. They, at least, made it
sound like the arena was full.
Things like this just don’t happen every
day (once every 22 years). We were one of the
top teams in the country, competing
for the
Canadian championship
and there wasn’t
nearly enough people there to share the glory.
Varsity arena holds close to 7000 people
and we didn’t even fill up half of the arena.
One would think that during the best game of
the last 2 decades, the Warrior booster club
would be out in full force. However,
Maple
Leaf Gardens seemed to be sporting more
signs that read “Go Acadia Go” rather than
“Warriors
Kick Axemen.”
I would hope that the next time the
Warriors
make it to the finals, there will be
more people to show how proud we are of
them. What’s
the point of winning when
there’s no one there to watch?
-Patricia

Pudolyak

Russell
once

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a week

it

To the Editor,
James Russell doesn’t masturbate, ever?
Funny, E thought he did so every week. Wha
is John Gait?seems to cause lots of stir and
make James feel good, anyway. . . I knew a
guy who had a friend who read the column
once, and he said it was the same.
-Heother

Calder

Dance

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So Wilfrid Laurier University
Students’
Union is organizing
a “bash” this year, hoping that last year’s Ezra Street fiasco won’t
reoccur. They’ll present a live band and keep
campus bars open to keep students off the
street. Last year, youmuy (sarcasm intended)
recall that student excess and police belligerence resulted in a riot, complete with charges,
injuries, and a media nightmare for WLU.
[I still recall watching the news broadcasts the day after the party, and anxious
phone call I received from my parents: they
were worried that T was probably in jail.]
This year, however,
this may all be
avoided. After the reputation the party dcveloped last year, many students doubt that any
on-campus
“bash” will be any sort of a replacement. Only time will tell.
Last year, before the mayhem that ensued, then-President
of WLUSU
Ralph
Spoltore flew a similar idea with the Laurier
administration,
the city, and other great
naysayers. Needless to say, they shot it down.
At the Laurier level, I don’t know why. At the
city level, though, too many petty politicians
tried to use the issue for cheap political gain.
Even now, though, those self-same smallminded peons totally ignore the fact that all of
the carnage could have been avoided with
their support. It must be nice for city councillors to be able to provoke an incident through
their need for easy publicity,
and then deny
any culpability
in a quest for more easy
publicity.
At least the police seem to realize the
error of their ways. Last year, they went

door-to-door
in the area threatening (waming, whatever)
students. Maybe this was a
leap of logic too large for the police to have
understood
at the time, but, by creating the
image of a party so huge that the law had to
go door-to-door
in advance, they just may
have increased attendance.
This year, they’re just saying that if
they’re needed, they’ll be there. I hope that’s
true for anywhere in the K-W area. I’d hate to
dial 9- 1- 1 and fmd out that my house was the
exception to the rule. But that’s just sarcasm.
Really, the police seem to have the right idea
by downplaying
the odds of their presence
being necessary.
Only problem is they’re
adopting this attitude a year too late.
After what happened last year, a lot of
students will wander onto the street, just to
compare what’s going on with the legend of
last year. If the legend had never been created
(if an alternative had been provided last year)
then avoiding
a repeat this year wouldn’t
have been anywhere so (difficult.
So all we can do now is wait. Wait and
see what happens. It wouldn’t be advisable to
hang around Ezra that night, but rest assured
some people will.
One thing to wait for, that will never
happen, is for Waterloo city councillors
and
the Waterloo
Regional Police to come out
and admit that they played a large role in last
year’s violence, through ineptitude and inaction. Keep waiting . . . and waiting.
T don’t
think they’ll ever admit that last year could
have been avoided, if only they’d been reasonable.

To tke Editor,
1 am writing to thank the paper and more
specifically
Greg Krafchick
for the tender
and not overly-sentimental
coverage of the
Dance Department’s
final show, Swun Song.
My four years here have been hard, both
blemished and graced by the gradual closing
of my academic
home. The emptiness deprived me of many standard university
expericnccs (Campus Day activities, orientation
of first-year
students, a voice in the larger
context of university
affairs) but it also gave

me freedom I would othenvise have been
unable to celebrate. When I arrived at this
institution
in the fall of 1992, I had no
inkling as to my talents in dance. I had no
clue what I was doing, I wasn’t a very good
dancer and I think the department accepted
me because I had a high academic standing.
What I discovered
was astounding.
Now I
dance with a small company and am pursuing a rather naively ambitious career as a solo
dancer. Some days I think I just might make
it.
This is what the events of the last four
years has given me and many others. When
the curtain fell at the March 10th Gala silence came down with it. Silence of potential
voices like mine.
Imprint
has sometimes
missed our
events and refrained from printing information about our dwindling
existence.
This
year, however, the paper has been great. Both
Sonja Sen and Greg Krafchick
(and the
woman who took the wonderful photo of me
seen last November)
showed sensitivity
and
soulfulness.
And all three have been incessantly kind in their imagery and words in
regard to my work. I am so very flattered; the
paper has helped to bolster my self-confidence. My solo in the Gala was an emotional
exposure of some scary things living in my
head and Greg, I am ecstatic that someone I
don’t know could be touched by it.
Goodbye and thank you for the support
Imprint.
-Martha

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hen I was growing
up in rural
Saskatchewan,
there was nothing I
enjoyed more than going fishing
with my dad and my grandparents.
We would
spend hours out on the water, my patience
helled by anticipation
of all the fish WC
would catch, and their patience tested by my
insistence that we stay “just a little bit longer,”
as well as my annoying imitation of Roscoe
P. Coltrane’s
laugh which I would let loose
each time I was fortunate enough to catch a
- .
tlsh.
When we couldn’t go fishing, there was
nothing I enjoyed more than watching
The
Red Fisher Show on Saturday mornings.
For
the uninitiated,
Red Fisher was/is (?) one of
the pioneers of the fishing shows, such as
Fish n ’ Canada, which still dot the Saturday
TV programming
schedule. The basic format of Red Fisher’s show involved him sitting around his cottage with a couple of his
fishing buddies and reminiscing
about some
of the successful fishing trips they had taken
together. There was a lot of footage of Red
and his buddies fishing as well as plenty of
advice on what techniques
would make for
the most successful fishing trip possible.
Now, I have no quarrel with Mr. Fisher,
or any of his buddies. Perhaps this is because
he bore a striking resemblance
to my grandfather, but more likely because his show had
a certain innocent quality about it. It was
more than an opportunity
for advertisers
of
fishing equipment to reach their consumers.
Red Fisher loved fishing and it was fun to
watch him do it. Et was a chance to vicariously enjoy the incomparable
thrill of successfully landing a live fish which you alone
had lured from the shadowy depths and into
your shiny aluminum boat.
As muchas 1 enjoyed Red Fisher’s show,
and as much as I still enjoy fjshing, something about the new fishing shows bothers
me. I have felt it for a while now but it was
only last weekend, as 1 flipped on the TV in
order to catch Fish n ’ Canadd while 1 ate my
lunch, that I realized what it was, Today,
these shows are nothing more than commercials for fishing gear with a few minutes of
actual program in between; it dawned on me
that these shows cheapened and corrupted
the joy of fishing in much the same way as
porn videos cheapen and corrupt the joy of
sex. Once this thought hit me, 1 was surprised
at just how many parallels between the two
mediums.
For example: Both fishing shows
and porn videos create unrealistic
expectations of the activity which they document.
Pornography
usually involves
guys having
sex with beautiful women who want nothing
but sex and can have a screaming
orgasm at
the drop of a hat. As any guy knows, such
women do not exist. Fishing shows on the
other hand, by only filming wildly successful
fishing trips and through the use of time
lapse photography,
lead the viewer to think
that if he/she doesn’t catch a fish on every
second cast, there is something
seriously
wrong with that person.
Both fishing shows and porn videos

encourage male-dominated
fantasies where
fish and women are exploited to meet the
desires of men. Porn videos cater to male
sexual fantasies about sex-hungry,
siliconladen women whose only desire is to exist as
the sexual servant of their male counterparts.
Fishing shows exploit fish as the plaything of
men. They encourag,e the viewer to believe
that fish merely exist to provide
us with
recreational
opportunities
rather than celebrating fish as some of nature’s most beautiful creations.
For both forms of entertainment,
the
climax is the most important thing. In pornography, orgasm seems to be the only reason given for two people to engage in sex. In
fishing shows, everylhing
is subordinated
to
catching a fish; and the more fish one can
catch, the better the fisherman
is. Neither
activity
is enjoyed in and of itself. With
emphasis on orgasm and the selfish pursuit
of pleasure; pornography
leaves out intimacy, sensuality,
love, and tenderness.
In
their orgiastic quest for the most fish in the
least amount of time, fishing shows often
overlook
the sheer joy of being out on the
water and the opportunity
fishing provides
to enjoy the sights, sounds, and smells of
nature, whether or not one catches any fish.
In addition, neither climax is allowed to take
its natural course. In porn videos, the guy
rarely, if ever, ejaculates while still inside the
woman, as nature intended. On fishing shows,
people do not catch fish for food, as was
originally the case. They do it simply for the
joy of catching them, and then they release
them, in hopes of catching them again next
year when they are a little bigger.
In addition to thle above, the following
comments
may also be made: both porn
videos and fishing shows do not encourage
participants
in either activity to use any sort
of protection.
Porn guys do not wear condoms or use sperrnic.idal foams, while fishing guys never wear life jackets. Both forms
ofentertainment
involve the use of elaborate
toys to make the activity more interesting; as
ifto imply that either activity is not enjoyable
enough on its own. Dildos, vibrators, and the
like may be found on porn videos while
fishing shows encourage the use of fish finders, jigglers, and rubber frogs. Scandalous.
Last but not least, in both porn videos and
fishing shows, size is everything;
whether
we are talking about penises, breasts, or fish.
This leaves both the wielder of small flesh
and the catcher of small fish feeling wildly
inadequate.
Based on the above observations,
there
may be some lovers of porno and Fish tz ’
Canada fans out there who would say that 1
do not know enouglh about either one of
them. That may be true. But from where I sit,
observing
how both pornography
and fishing shows have corrupted
my innocence,
1
think that ifpeople wa,tched less ofboth types
of entertainment,
we would all be a lot better
Off.

-Kevin

Miller

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here is no abernative.
This
is the only way. Bullshit.
There is more than one way
to do anything. There are aiternatives. Just because these alternatives are not “newsworthy”
or
widely disseminated
does not mean
that they do not exist. By popular
demand, I’ll take this opportunity
to suggest some alternative ways to
“restore prosperity
to Ontario.”
lt is essential that the economy
be restored to health. In this matter
I agree with Mr. Harris and neoconservatives
everywhere. But what
does %xnomic
prosperity”
really
mean‘?
China’s economy is booming.
China’s
industry
also dumps 40
tons ofraw, untreated waste into its
third-largest
river every day. Water
from this river is unfit for plant life,
yet it is the only source of drinking
water for many. When the Exxon
Valdez dropped
its load off the
coast of Alaska, the economy,
as
measured by the GDP, improved.
The industrial
revolution
was an
era of tremendous
economic
growth, but also a time where children were enslaved
in factories.
Are these examples of the kind of
prosperous
economy
we want? I
doubt it.
The economy
cannot remain
an entity unto itself. Rather, it is a
means to an end -- that end being
enhanced quality of life, individually and collectively.
1 doubt the
Chinese villagers
really care that
business
is booming
while they
drink toxic water that makes them
vomit. I doubt that most Ontarians
are thrilled that banks make billion
dollar profits year after year after
year. The goal ofan economy should
be to improve people’s living conditions and not just to make money
for the sake ofmaking money, Since
the earliest economies were established thousands of years ago, this
fact has been forgotten and subordinated to a more competitive,
seifinterested, and acquisitive
attitude.
Although
this serves some people
admirably
(e.g. feudal lords, slave
drivers, bank executives),
the majority has been ill-served by the way
economics has evolved.
The goal, then, in pursuing an
alternative way to secure economic
prosperity
is to meet the needs of
both individuals
and society. This
seems like an oxymoron,
and it is,
mostly. Nevertheless,
I will briefly

ning Council
of K-W).
Agreed,
there is abuse of the welfare system
(as there is everywhere),
but this
does not mean that innocent victims should suffer. Many students
receive OSAP who do not need it,
but does that mean that OSAP
should be cut for everyone?
The
government
should crack down on
the abusers of the welfare system,
and leave the rest alone rather than

suggest some alternatives
to the
current government’s
policies that
will address this goal.
Education:
A country’s
prosperky lies fundamentally
in the level
of education of its workforce.
Raising tuition fees will be deleterious
in the long run. Tuition fees must
remain at the same level or be lowered to ensure that Ontario
and
Canada remain a strong economic

What dues CCecOnumicpruspe~i~”
really mean ? China fs economy
booming.
China )s industv
also dumps 40 tons of raw, untreated
waste into its third-lurgest
river every duy= Wuterfrom
this river
unfzt forplccnt
life, yet it is the only source of drin king water fo
many. When the EXXOIZ Vildez dropped its lad off the coast
Alaska, the economy, us measured by the GDE impruved.

entity. With regard to public education, staffing cuts should not occur in the classroom.
But most
Boards of Education have plenty of
administrative
fluff they can do
without.
Health Care: Our health care
system is envied the world over.
Studies comparing
out health care
system to that of the United States
consistently
find that our costs are
lower, service is fairer and more
efficient, and people are healthier.
Yet, while foreign countries
are
lusting after our health care system, we are dismantling
it. Common sense dictates that we preserve
it. “We will not cut health care
spending. I t’s far too important.. .”
(The Common Sense Revolution).
I
Welfare/Workfare:
According
to Robert Muiialy, a professor at St.
Thomas University,
workfare only
increases the competition
for jobs:
it does not create them. Further,
University
of Montreal
Associate
Professor
Alain
Noel
states
“workfare
programs are expensive
and, to date, it is far from clear that
workfare will bring substantial net
is a good consavings.” Workfare
cept in theory, but not in practice,
especially when work training programs are being reduced by $69
million. Assuming
recipients have
the skills to fill all the vacant jobs
available in Waterloo Region, there
is only one job for every nine recipients who lost benefits, leaving nothing for 27,000 ofthem (Social Plan-

ruthlessly and mindlessly
slashing
and burning.
Welfare
recipients
(used to) contribute to the economy
just like anyone else by buying food,
clothes, and rent. In addition, increasing the economic hardship of
this or any group will lead to increases in crime, family violence,
and delinquency.
The net savings
of welfare cuts are less than they
appear.
Restructuring
Bureaucracy:
There is a lot of fat to be trimmed in
the provincial
bureaucracy.
Unfortunately, most of what has been cut
so far is not the fat, but rather the
people on the front lines - the
service providers.
What should be
cut is more middle and upper man-

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billion that could be used to pay
down the deficit. Everyone
agrees
that the deficit is a problem, and
I’m sure everyone would be willing
to help bail the province out of its
debt crisis.
Increased
Taxes: Taxes on
banks, other financial institutions,
and large corporations
should be
increased. This could make another
billion dollars or so that can go
towards creation of real jobs.
Fewer Politicians:
Still waiting...
Job Creation:
If people have
jobs, people will have money. If
people have money, they will spend
it. It people spend money,
the
economy will be happy. It’s pretty

simple. Mr. Harris would do well to
spend money to create j obs, to boost
the economy.
1 + 1 = 2.
We can and must preserve the
things we value, particularly
education and health care. At the same
time, we can reduce the debt and
keep it reduced,
and ensure the
long-term health of our economy.
Unfortunately,
Mr. Bank Chairman won’t get his $100,000 tax
cut, nor will you get your 30X, but
that’s somethiNg we will just have
to live with. As Oliver
Wendel
Holmes once said, taxes are tht:
price we pay for civilization.
It is not a perfect alternative,
nor, in the interest of brevity, is it
complete. But it is a hell of a lot
more effective., humane, and sensible
than
Harris’
ruthless,
directionless
approach.
It’s ironic. The latest figures
show that Ontario’s
economy has
declined over tlhe last while, mainly
because of reduced
government
spending, lower consumer
confidence, and the fact that fewer peopie have jobs. IYot what most of us
had in mind when we voted PC. But
that’s OK. The banks are smiling.
As a final note, I am sick ofthe
lack of creativity on the part of neoconservatives
and the New Right in
offering solutions to the social problems facing this province and this
country.
If anyone has any real
solutions (or any comments
about
this article), why don’t you send me
an
e-mail,
at
vjzbogar@cousteau.uwaterloo.
I would like
to hear what you have to say.

agement jobs. This would achieve
almost equivalent amounts of saving, would affect fewer people, and
would retain most services at close
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Transportation:
Why is the
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Expressway
in Hamilton, which is
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niversity
politics
is complicated.
Having said that, however, it’s really
not that difficult to figure things out
with a bit of elementary
information.
The
hard part is getting that information.
Unless,
of course, somebody presents you with that
information
in an easy-to-use
format.
So
here we go.
The first thing to realize is that there is
no single voice for universities,
although
many groups would Like to think that they are
that voice. Students, administrations,
and faculty each present proposals they believe to
be best for the university
system.
Students, through their role as clients of
the system, believe that their voice should be
the loudest. Administration,
because they
are the ones who actually run the universities, believe that they have the handle on what
the best solutions
are to the universities’
problems.
Faculty, as the primary servicedeliverers,
feel that they have the best solutions.
If you’re wondering
who’s right, keep
wondering. 1 don’t intend to hand-feed you
solutions. My goal is just to provide you with
the background
of some of the major groups,
their philosophical
grounding,
and their
stands on some of the major issues.
in Ontario,
university
administrations
are represented
by the Council of Ontario
Universities,
or COIJ. Each school is represented by its President (or equivalent
title),
and an academic fellow - a professor selected by the University
of Waterloo’s
Senate.
The history of COU began in the early
197Os, and it made an immediate
impact.
With a budget of over $1,000,000 in its first
year, COU was the first university
organization to maintain a full-time staff year-round.
Although they may argue this, COU is
more interested in whether or not universities have adequate funding than they are with
whether or not students are financially
able
to attend universities.
For example,
the Council
of Ontario
Universities
recognizes
that government
funding is woefully inadequate, and sees little possibility
of changing this in the near
future. To compensate,
they propose an income-contingent
loan repayment
program
(lCLRP),
whereby students would each repay an amount determined by their income,
rather than their debt level. COU wants this,
however,
so that tuition fees can be drastically raised. With such a loan system in
place. according
to COU, potential students
would not view tuition as a financial barrier
to access.
UGersity
administration
is represented
at the f-.- I 33 level by the Association
of
Unik erstii ,, .D! f’oIiegesofCanada(~4UCCj.

Since it is primarily associated with the federal
funding ofresearch and federal cash transfers
for universities,
you’ll rarely hear about the
AUCC in the general press because the federal government
maintains a small direct role
in the funding of universities.
AUCC doesn’t
get involved with tuition rates, because tuition
levels aren’t set by the federal government.
Faculty representation
is in many ways
the polar opposite
of administrations.
In
Ontario, faculty are represented
by the On-

We’ve

all heard

these

acronyms

before,

tario Confederation
of University
Faculty
Associations,
or OCUFA.
OCUFA’s
executive maintain their full-timejobs
as professors
at their respective Ontario universities
while
fulfilling their provincial
duties.
The OCUFA’s
philosophies
are definitely more idealistic
than COU’s.
I still
remember
the look of incredulity
on the
then-VP of OCUFA’s
face as he argued for
the merits of zero-tuition
only to be faced by
a student believing it to be nothing more than
a pipe dream.
Faculty are represented
at the federal
level by the Canadian Association
of University Teachers, or CAUT. This organization
is
best-known
on our campus for its role in
providing a lawyer free of charge for Professor Sehdev Kumar. If you don’t know why
that’s important,
chances are you haven’t
read this far anyway.
Part of the CAUT’s
role is to defend

professors from unjust treatment at the hands
of administrators
- such as that alleged in
UW’s Lipczynska
case; and to promote academic freedom - as in the Rushton case at
Western.
And then we come to the students. Students are undoubtedly
the black sheep in
terms of political lobby groups. While there
is only one voice for administrations
in Ontario, and only one voice for faculty at the
federal level, students in Ontario have the

but

what

do they

mean?

choice of belonging either to the Canadian
Federation of Students- Ontario (CFS-U), or
to the Ontario Undergraduate
Student Alliance (OUSA).
Federally, students can choose between
the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, or the Canadian Federation
of Students. Ontario is not the exception,
though.
Most provinces
are home to at least two
student movements
with radically
different
approaches
and philosophies.
The CFS-0 espouses zero tuition, aguaranteed minimum income for students, open
access regardless
of financial or academic
qualifications,
and Ihe elimination
of differential fees for international
students.
CFS-0 also gets involved
with other,
less relevant to education
issues; such as
pollution, injustice in third world countries,
and the im~olvement
of Canadian corporations in pollution and third world countries.

care
OUSA, on the other hand, has the primary goal of financial accessibility.
Similar
to COU, they endorse an income contingent
loan repayment
program. Their reasons for
doing so, however, are quite different. While
COU views ICLRps ats a means to increase
tuition, OUSA feels that tuition levels are
too high already, the current loan system as
inadequate, and an ICLRP as necessary without further tuition inc:reases.
Nationally,
CFS tows the exact same
party line as CFS-0. In fact, the two organizations are so closely linked that it’s impossible to be a member of one without being a
member of the other.
The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations,
on the uther hand, maintains
no
provincial
arms. CAS.A is solely concerned
with the federal government
funding of universities,
student loans, and other related
areas.
It’s difficult
to say what CASA’s philosophies
are, because unlike CFS, they
haven’t been around long enough for an enduring image to be developed.
In fact, in this first year of operation,
CASA has yet to mount a successful
campaign in the eyes of its students. In preparing
this article I spoke to a few reasonablyinformed students, and the only thing they
remembered
CASA for was the embezzlement case involving
one of its senior members. A few also recalled that Waterloo rejected a CASA campaign proposal in the fall
semester. Not exactly the material of which
legends are made.
In terms of membership,
and which
school represents
the most students,
it’s
difficult to say definitively
which organizations are the largest. CFS claims to have high
numbers,
but they also represent
college
students. They also include 25,000 UW students as members, despite the fact that Waterloo withdrew
several years ago, and there
aren’t anywhere near that many students attending UW. Shady m#ath? Perhaps.
CASA and OUSA. are more honest with
their numbers. If you actually limit membership estimates to actual1 members, then both
CASA and OUSA represent more university
students than their counterparts.
To tell the
truth, though, numbers are becoming increasingly irrelevant.
CFS-0 constantly
complains
that they
can’t get enough attention from Education
Minister John Snobelen, despite their numbers. OUSA has little trouble getting in with
the Minister,
because they (according
to
OUSA) have a rational message to present.
CFS is the group that engages in macaroni-throwing
protests,
constantly
getting
press for burning peopte in effigy. Other
groups more closely follow the axiom: JJOU
get moreJies
with honey than you do kth
vinegur.
Which works better? You decide.

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17

Questioning

Tenure

Does it guarantee
by Kelly
Foley
Vice PresMent
Education-Elect
special
to Imprint

T

he tenured, professorate
belong to an
elite which is rare in society. Strictly
speaking, tenured professors
are not
an untouchable
lot, even though they certainly appear to be.
Tenured
faculty members
have traditionally been provided
with an unrivalled
level of job security and the justification
for
this privilege has always been a relentless
battle cry for “academic
freedom.”
As a method of ensuring this fkeedom,
tenure implies that only those members of
the university
community
that have attained
a given level of accomplishment
or prestige
deserve to have their rights so vehemently
protected. This argument fails if we consider
that academic freedom is a fundamental principle of the university
as an institution,
and it

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should be equally accessible to all.
The preamble to the University
of Waterloo’s Policy 53, which deals with faculty
appointments
and tenure, states that “The
University
supports
academic
freedom,
which means the freedom to study, teach,
publish and debate, independent
of current
opinion,
subject
to commonly
accepted
scholarly
standards.”
Policy 33 on Ethical
Behaviour
is also designed to protect academic freedom. Presumably
this policy is
meant to defend all untenured members of
the community.
If this policy is regarded as
a sufficient
guarantee for some members,
why is it not sufficient
for all?
Although
academic
freedom
is most
often quoted, Policy 53 states that another
purpose of tenure is to “provide stability for
the individual and the university.”
Stability is
certainly an agreeable concept. However,
in
light of the current fiscal climate it would be
difficult
to argue that professors
deserve
that which nobody else can claim.
Moreover,
the level ofjob security provided by tenure makes it signiciantly
more
difficult to scale down the number of faculty
in times of financial distress. Although the
apparatus exists, the process is very lengthy
and arduous.

While tenure offers its hotders job security, it does a poor job of meeting its
objective
of guaranteeing
academic
freedom. More often than not, money provides a
stronger censor than any of the traditional
obstructions.
Tenured or not, one must compete for
grant funds. The policy of federal grant agencies changed in 1970 such that private sector
research firms would receive priority.
Researchers were then forced to become more
entrepreneurial
in generating their funding
Contractual
research with companies
such as McDonalds
or Microsoft
are common. In this highly competitive
arena, ideas
with a great deal of academic promise could
be easily pushed aside by more marketable
ideas.
As industry begins to play a larger role
in university
research, it could dictate the
type of research that is undertaken-. If faculty
are interested in a particular
topic, reason-

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an inquiry into the accusations.
The resulting
report concluded that Fabrikant’s
allegations
were true. The Arthurs report also outlines
some systemic weaknesses
in the research
culture which has allowed or even encouraged this unethical behaviour
to occur. The
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published a study in Psychological
Science in
which they presented
other psychologists
with vignettes of faculty-student
collaborations on research projects.
The professors
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heavily upon the volume of publications
as a
measure of a professor’s
productivity.
The episode at Concordia is undisputedly
atypicalbut only in the manner in which it
unfolded. According
to the Arthurs
report,
the provoking issuesand problems “are not
unique to Concordia. ” When taken into context, a breeding ground for disaster is created which the Concordia
affair has all too
clearly illustrated.
It is also well documented
that faculty
on the tenure track are more aggressive than
their tenured counterparts.
In 1992, psychologists M. Martin Costa and Margaret
Gatz

ior faculty. Anecdotal
responses also indicated that “the effect of tenure on fatuity
willingness
to give students credit may be
more than academic m,ythology”.
The justification for a process which
clearly establishes an elite with their own set
of superior rights, must be quite consummate. Of course academia has so many heady
concepts from which to draw.
This “community
of schotars” living in
its “ivory tower” has been charged to create
and disseminate knowledge freely, as well as
define and challenge truth without fear of
reprisal. If only we ALL had tenure.

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able access to funding could be denied simply
because it is not a current priority to industry.
Topics which criticize
industry may be
removed
from the course curriculum
because they are not considered
to be pragmatic investments
for the private sector. The
principle of academic freedom which universities mean to protect is compromised
because researchers
are obliged to financially
justify their work.
Faculty are sometimes prohibited
from
undertaking
research not because it is unpopular but because it is unprofitable.
In this
case, tenure offers no protection
against
dwindling resources.
The harm that tenure imposes on higher
education is magnified in light of its apparent inability to preserve academic freedom.
In 1992, at the University
of Concordia,
Valery Fabrikant killed four ofhis collcagues
in the Engineering
Faculty after attempting
to obtain tenure through bribery and blackmail. Fabrikant
accused several fellow faculty of misappropriating
authorship credit in
academic papers and engaging in conflicts of
interest.
Following
the tragedy, the Concordia
commission
was established by former York
University
President, Harry Arthurs, to lead

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eil Randail teaches courses in Rhetoric and Professional
Writing for the
University
of Waterloo’s
English De-

partment.
He has published several books about
the Internet including
Teach Yourself the
Internet,
The World Wide Web Unleashed,
M-Bone and the Multimedia
Internet,
and
Using HTML. Currently,
he is working
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three books to be published this summer:
The Soul of the Internet,
N&cape
Navigator Gold, and Microsoft
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T

ell me about your book on the history
of the Internet?
The Soul of the Internet is a combination history of the Net from the perspective
of, first of all me, but also an oral perspective
of the people who actually put the things
together and did all the various development,
So, 1 interviewed
probably
100 people.
Was that internationally?
Yes, mostly in the US because that’s
where most of the activity occurred. While I
certainly
didn’t get to everybody,
the fact
remains that most of the people I got to were
able to teI1 me stories of what went on in
various places and various technologies.
It
was quite interesting to hear their view of it.
I’m not particularly
interested
in the
actual history of the Internet from a documentary stand point. For one thing, I don’t
think it’s all that exciting, but I’m interested
in what people have to say about their contributions and there are some interesting things.
The early stuffis much more interview based;
the later material is based on what I’ve been
able to pick up from the Net itself and popular press, from perspectives
of various activist groups. So, you get into issues like Internet
censorship
and the Communications
Decency Act in the U.S.
Did you find any conflicting
information like people taking credit for work
that others have done?
Oddly enough the actual technology
people behind the building of the Internet all
tell the same story. And they seem to be
telling pretty much the truth. They seem to
be very modest. I mean you talk to a person
like Vince Cerf who’s considered
the Godfather of the Internet and he just tells you
about all kinds of other people and what they
did. I did have one bit ofcontroversy
with one
person claiming a great deal that he’s never
claimed before. I suspect it’s a bit of a crock.
Wasn’t
The Soul of the Internet
supposed to be out in October
of ‘95? Why
did things get pushed back?
It was a combination
of interviews
with
people getting postponed and getting a hold
of people. It’s treacherousthese are busy
people. With full-time teaching it’s hard to
be scheduling
all these things. You know,
you teach two or three courses during the day
and you go home at night and are too tired to
write. And, quite frankly, I had some serious

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iurn out problems 1 guess. I just couldn’t get
it going for a while, but it’s picking up now
again.
The publishers are really anxious forThe
Soul of the Internet. The book seller put out
an article on upcoming
Internet books and
listed it as one of the most interesting which
is really quite funny because I hadn’t written
it yet. Hopefully,
it will be a book that people
will take interest in. I’m hoping it’s the kind
of book that people will want to read on
airplanes. It’s not a scholarly history of the
Net. I wasn’t after that,
So, why did you get into the computer book writing
business?
Because I got into the computer game
reviewing
business.
I originally
bought a

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because,one, I didn’t want to retype my PhD
thesis and secondly, because I wanted to play
computer games.
I was a game player in the pre-computer
days with everything from role-playing games
to war games to all kinds of strategy games.
So, it was about a 50/50 split over why I
bought my first computer.
Eight months
previous to that I was totally against the thing
- anti-technological.
1 then picked up a
magazine that had some reviews of games
and basically said, “I can do this.” And I found
out that it was a way of getting free games,
because they send them to you so you can
review them.
I sent in my first review and the publisher
asked me to do more, and it took off from
there. Then I started publishing for additional
magazines and I decided that I should hop on
the Internet bandwagon.
Actually, as it turns out now, it was fairly
young at that point back in ‘93. Since then this
thing has exploded. And then I decided that I
would like to write a book about how to use
the Internet because at that time they did not
have the World
Wide Web. I sent in a
proposal to a company, forgot about it completely, and they phoned me up and said, “We
think we can use this, not what you’ve sent
us, but the way we’d like it,” which is the way

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computer book publishers
work, and so I,
signed the contract. I had a co-author at the
time, but he left the country so I ended up
doing it by myself. And that was the first one.
It was successful enough that they asked me
to do a second one, and a third one.
The first book you wrote was Temh
Yourself the Internet?
Yeah, and the second one was the World
Wide Web Unleashed. That’s an interesting
story because while I was finishing
Teach
Yourselfthe
Internet the Web was starting to
take off.
Mosaic had been released,
and people
were starting to surfaround
the Web and sites
were siarting to appear. I phoned the publishers and said, “What about a book about the

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World Wide Web?” and they said, “Ah, I
don’t know. Do you think it will go anywhere?” and I said, “Well, it looks like it.”
It was really the first comprehensive
book about the Web. It’s hopelessly
out of
date, even with the second edition, by now
because the thing is out of date the day you
write it. Now I’ve been trying to get into
various other technologies
such as html. My
next contracted
book is about a Microsoft
program called Front Page which lets you
create Web sites and serve them up on the
Web. It’s a great anxiety level because every
morning you wake up and you realise you’re
way behind.
Do you find that writing books interferes with teaching and marking?
I’ve been very lucky in that the book
writing is actually also the subjects of the
teaching I want to do, such as this multimedia
course. I teach in the Professional
Writing
field- This is obviously professional
writing,
so I can bring those experiences
in.
Yes, it’s difficult
to juggle everything
which is one reason I’m actually trying to cut
down the amount of writing I’m doing. I don’t
like when it interferes in any way, and I try not
to let it. It probably has to some extent, but I
try hard not to let it do that. I don’t know how
success&l I’ve been. You’ll have to askother
peopIe about that.

Do you get rich from writing
books?
No! You don’t get rich from writing these
things. You get enough to do things like go on
vacation with your family, put up a ret room
which iskind ofwhat I’m doing right now. It’s
a supplementary
form of income.
I suppose if I wanted to, and really
worked hard at it, 1 could make it into a full
time income, but I don’t want to because then
I’d be doing things like begging for projects
and going to the mailbox
every day and
praying there’s a cheque there.
Are you famous?
Nah, it’s just that I have enough technical knowledge
that they know I know what
I’m talking about. I’m not really highly technically skilled, but there’s enough there. 1
write very well for that kind of medium.
And for your audience,
I imagine?
Yeah, what they normally get are really
highly technically
skilled people, but they
have to redo all their writing, generally speaking. That’s a cliche, but it does happen. I’m
able to give them well written prose that they
don’t have to do a lot of work on, so that’s
why they like working with me.
That seems ideal fior the publisher?
Well, I would hope. That’s what I seem
to be getting. There arc certain projects I
wouldn’t take on because they are too technical. I don’t want to write a book on C++ or
how to build virtual reality models. I couIdn’t
do it.
So, what about your competition?
Do you buy their books to see what they
are doing?
I buy almost nothing. I just don’t normally find it very useful.. I normally
know
what I want to say and how I want to present
it. The publisher will keep me in touch with
what other people are doing.
Frankly, I’m so busy .writing these things
I don’t have time to read them. And if people
want to send me stuff tha.t’s fine, but I don’t
normally take a look at wlhat other people are
writing. I’m not being arrogant in any way, I
just don’t see the point.
Can you tell me more about
the
projects
themselves?
One of the most interesting
things has
been involving students and other people I’ve
met in the past. There have been a number of
students who have worked with me on my
books, their names do appear in them. And in
a couple of cases it has led to some really
good things.
Like what?
A couple of students lin English ended up
with Microsoft.
A couple of people are going through job interviews
now. They came
in with virtually no computer knowledge and
working on the books gave them a jump start
into that area. So that’s another thing I’ve
been able to bring back to the University
So, when are you due for a sabbatical?
Not until ‘98, but I may just take a few
months andnot be writing books and see how
that goes. But somehow., I don’t think that
will happen.

The resulting movement of graduating students to a
Chrysler dealership after reading they can receive an
extra $750 rebate on a hot looking Z-door with a gutsy

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Athlete who displays athletic excellence, sportsmanship, citizenship, and academic success. The nominees are:

Mike Malott

-Football/Track

Jeff Miller

Chosen
the Football
Warriors’
Most
Valuble
Player
this season,
Mike was
another
force
up the middle
in
Waterloo’s
respectable
I995 campaign.
Mike finished
second in Warrior
career
rushing
yards and fourth
in the CIAU
all-time.
In 1994, Mike was selected by
the Ottawa
RoughRiders
thirteenth
overall,
and could possibly
play in the
NFL this season. Mike also competed
in
track.

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- Track & Field

A mechanical
engineer,
Jeff has been
the number
one ranked
pole vaulter
in
the CIAU
the past two years. In 1995,
Jeff competed
in the Commonwealth
Games, placing9th
with a personal
best
5.20 metres.
Recently,
at the CIAU
championships
in Windsor,
Jeff won
the event for the second
cons&utive
year. He was the 1996 team captain and
team leader, and is a definite
Olympic
hopeful.

Matt

AWARD : This award is presented in hon-

our of Hildegard Marsden (the former UW Dean of Women). The
award recognizes the Female Athlete who has excelled in athletics
at the University of Waterloo, and also represents excellence in
academics and student citizenship. The nominees are:

Reed - Volleyball

John Wynne --Hockey

This year’s
team captain
and biggest
offensive
weapon,
Matt
has enjoyed
three stellar seasons at the University
of
Waterloo
after
beginning
his CIAU
career
at McMaster.
An OUAA
AllStar last year and the year before, Matt
was again selected as one of the OUAA’s
finest this season. His leadership,
steady
play, and powerful
presence
on the court
were crucial
for the Warriors’
success
this season.
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John capped
his career by earning
the
Sullivan
Award
thhs season
which
recognizes
the best hockey
player
in
Canida.
Wynne captained
the Warriors
to the National
Finals in this, his last
season at Waterloo.
He was also named
to the CIAU
all-star
first team, OUAA
MVP,
and OUAA
first team all-star.
This season, John led the team in points
and plus/minus.
He is 4th in alltimeWarrior
points.
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Judith

LeRoy

Kara

Rice - Swimming

Cross-Country/Track
One of the all-time
ners

in UW

history,

greatest
LeRoy

female
came

runinto

her own this season, claiming
the bronze
medal at the OWIAA
track finals in the
1500m.
In cross-country
last fall, she
made second team All-Canadian,
tanked
9th in the country.
A team captain
the
past two years,
Judith
was also an
Academic
All-Canadian
in 1993 and
1994.

Kara swam
books this
female

UW

her way into the UW record
season
and was the only
competitor

at the

CIAU

championships
this year. Other than a
bronze
medal
at
the
OWIAA
championships,
Rice set three
UW
records
and won the vaunted
Mike
Moser
Award
this
winter.
The
Mathematics
student
also served on the
Varsity
Council
and the Athletic
Advisory
Board
this year.

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Athena

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Adair

-

Field

Hockey

Amy, a native New Brunswicker,
established herself as the top defensive player in
the OWlAA
this season. Not only was Amy
able to shut down some of the top scorers in
the country,
but her tremendous
speed allowed her to be a constant scoring threat.
Amy is a young player who plays with maturity and composure.
For her outstanding play
in OWIAA
league play, Amy earned a First
Team league All-Star Award earning the
third highest number of votes in the league.
Amy’s strong play helped the Athena Field
Hockey Team capture its first ever OWIAA
Field Hockey Championship
and finished
fifth overall at the CIAU National Championships. She was also named a First Team
All Canadian. She played an integral role in
the success of the indoor hockey team as they
went on to capture the bronze medal at the
OWIAA
Championships.
Amy is currently
training with the Junior National Squad, with
the 1997 Junior World Cup as her goal.
Lindy

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of Students Rookies of the Year

5 in doubles, culminating
in an OWMA
silver medal in singles. On the strength of
Lindy’s performances,
the Athenas accomplished their goal of qualifying for the playoffs
for the first time in years. As a member of the
team, Lindy displayed poise, maturity and a
wonderful competitive
spirit. Her leadership
inspired and motivated both the Men’s and
Women’s teams on a daily basis.
Rachel

Nickie

-

Track

Rachel was an outstanding
competitor
and leader for the team all season long. Always positive and energetic, she has been an
example for all team members to follow. Her
keenness to excel after three years away from
the sport brought her and the team great
success. She had accumulated
18 personal
bests up to the CIAU championships
while
setting three school records - in the 55m,
6Om, and 200m. She helped both the women’s 4x200m
and 4x400m
relay teams to
fourth place finishes at the OWIAAs.
She
also did well in the 30Om and 400m events
despite never having run either before.

Finalists at the CIAU Championships.
His
dominant physical presence and finely tuned
puckhandling
skills provided
a terrorizing
balance of power and finesse. He ended up
with 20 goals and 22 assists, second on the
team and ninth in the OUAA. He was also
named OUAA West Rookie of the Year.
David

Markin

-

Tennis

Dave finished the year with a record of 5
wins and 2 losses. His efforts saw him win a
silver medal at the OUAA Singles Championships. He was also named an OWAA All
Star. His committmen~
and leadership was a
great example and a -great inspiration
to his
teammates.-

John

Milne

.-

Swimming

John had an outstanding
season that saw
him place first at the OUAA Championships
in the 1OOm breaststroke,
while breaking a
team record that had existed since 1978. His
time in that event also qualified
him to
compete in the Swim Canada Olympic Trials
at the end of the month. His ability to compete in numerous events was very valuable
throughout the dual meet season helping the
team to be very competitive
and to finish tied
for second in the league standings with Westem. At the CIAU Chiampionships,
John was
a major point getter .for the Warriors,
highlighted by a fourth place finish in the 50m
bieaststrbke.
-

- Badminton

This season Lindy played No. I singles
and doubles positions and established herself
as one of the premier players in the OWLAA
immediately.
During the season Lindy posted
impressive records of 14-4 in singles and 13-

Peter

Breariey

-

Hockey

Peter Brearley was an outstanding rookie
on this year’s Warrior hockey team which
won the OUAA
Championship
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How low can you go?
rice again, baseball bigwigs
are trying to use their high
level of intelligence
in an
attempt to improve the game. And
as usual, their efforts are falling
laughably short.
Their latest target is the strike
zone. Apparently thesepeoplethink
that enlargening
the strike zone
will somehow magically speed up
the games. So, Major League Baseball umpires have been instructed
to start calling strikes below the
knees.
Umpires have objected to this
directive and hence, have not been
calling the new low strike. One
umpire commented that in a spring
training game this year, he tried
calling the low strike and was rewarded
with yelling
from both
benches. Seems that the players
aren’t too happy with the new zone
either. So, with players not liking
the new zone and umpires not calling if, yet another brilliant
idea
comes crashing down to earth in
failure.
How can veteran umpires be
expected to change the strike zone
that they have been comfortably
calling for many years? How can
players be asked to immediately
adjust to a new way of calling balls
and strikes? Apparently
these socalled “experts”
have never gotten
behind the plate and tried calling
balls and strikes before. A comfurtable strike zone takes years to perfect for an umpire and trying to
adjust it is something
that cannot
be done overnight.
Meanwhile,
players have spent years disciplining themselves on the finer points
of the strike zone. Changing the
strike zone for the players basically
forces them to start over from
scratch.
This coincidental
adjustment
period would not be a harmonious
one for players and umpires, who
would both be simultaneously
feeling their way through the changes.
There would be many disagreements during this extremely
tense
situation with both sides trying to
find a mutually
acceptable
common ground. Tempers would flare
and a general state of discontentment would exist between players
and umpires (even more so than
now) which wouldn’t
exactly be
good for the game. The umpires,
probably realizing this, are simply
preventing
it from happening.
Television has been calling for
faster games in order to keep fan
interest. Perhaps television should
realize that it’s their fault that the
games are this long in the first
place. There is a two-and-a-half
minute break between innings for
commercials.
This results in everybody having to wait until the TV
people say that it’s OK to continue.
In a full nine-inning
game, there

are 17 such breaks. Now, let us
examine the rules of baseball. The
rules state that a pitcher may take
no more than one minute to deliver
no more than eight warmup pitches
between innings. Give the pitcher
30 seconds to walk out to the mound,
plus the one minute of warmups,
and you only need a 90 second
break between innings. This would
cut down those between
inning
breaks by a full minute, resulting in
a 17 minute reduction
in game
time. It’s a good place to start.
Perhaps
these TV people
shouldrealize
that maybe they could
try to sacrifice
something
(for a
change) in order to get the shorter
games that they want instead of
changing the game itself.
No CFL

I

bonus

says Smith

f you ever want a lesson in
hypocracy
and how to break
promises,
don’t talk to your local
politician.
Take a course in CFL
1Oi with professor
Larry Smith,
who moonlights
as commissioner
of the CFL.
As part of the CFL salary cap
rules, if a team meets the salary cap
criteria then they are rewarded with
a draft pick in a “bonus” round of
the CFL draft, which occurs before
the first round. This offers an incentive to meet the cap. However,
Larry Smith recently abolished the
bonus round, citing that ofthe teams
which exceeded the cap, none were
significantly
over the cap enough
to justify being denied a pick. So, to
supposedly be fair, the bonus round
was eliminated.
What about teams like Hamilton which maintained
their position under the cap all season to be
able to select in the bonus round?
They followed the rules all year in
the hopes of being rewarded,
and
now they get nothing.
It has been suggested that abolishing the bonus round will make
things more fair to the top teams in
the league, who might not get to
select until late in the top ten or
even into the teens. Who was the
top team last year‘? Baltimore.
Where is Baltimore
now? Montreal. What team has been the beneficiary of recent efforts by Smith
to help their cause in their new
city? Montreal.
What team did
Larry Smith play for when he was
a young CFLer?
The Montreal
Alouettes.
Coincidence?
Yeah,
sure.
Smith has stated before that
one of his main goals was to make
the CFL prosperous
in Montreal
again. He has certainly
tried his
hardest to tilt the playing field in
their favour in an attempt to heIp
them gain popularity.
Wake up,
Larry, they won the Grey Cup last
year. What help do they need?
Whatever happened to competitive
balance? They should be getting
NO help whatsoever.
With bias like this, Larry Smith
now seems apparently
unfit to do

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his job as CFL commissioner.
The
time is now to get his hypocritical,
pro-Montreal
agenda out of offlice
and replace
him with someone
whose outlook. stretches beyond the
boundaries of Quebec. The whole
league is in deep shit, and we don’t
need the commissioner
trying to
nurse along his successful
prized
franchise
at the expense of other
franchises who don’t even know if
they will live to play their next
game. Canadian Football Lengu~,
Larry.
Rogers

T

screws

us again

his weekend, I was in Ottawa
watching
the NCAA
basketball tournament on the local Rogers
Cable system. Wake Forest and
Texas were plaiying an outstanding
game that was one of the best that
l’d seen so fx. With 16 seconds to
play, Wake Fatrest led by one and
was going to the free-throw
line for
a critical one-and-one.
I was geared
up for an exciting finish.
Now, CBS is broadcasting
the
tournament. It was on Sunday night
and it was approaching 7 p.m. which
meant that sissy Min~rte,y was on
next. The announcers said the usual
spiel about stay tuned for Six/-v
Minutes, blah, blah, blah. 1 didn’t
care, I was too much into the game.
Keep in mind that six@ MimtLzs
also comes on Global at 7 p.m. So,
just as the free throws are about to
take place, what comes on but Si.xv
Minutes, courtesy oftheGlobal
feed.
The Canadian Radio and Telecommunications
Council (CRTC) and
Rogers simulcasting
strike again.
Needless to say that 1 missed
the final 16 seconds, and by the
time Rogers rlealized that S~XQJ
Minutes hadn’t started on the CBS
station yet and switched back, the
game was over and Wake Forest
was celebrating victory. TerrificI already had a problem with
the whole bullshit
simulcasting
concept in the first place, but how
many more games will be cut off at
the end by this idiotic policy? While
this may have been an isolated incident that doesn’t normally happen, the fact is that while this system is in place, these mistakes can
and will happen. The CRTC and
Rogers have to wake up and realize
that Canadian cable viewers, who
pay prohibitive
amounts for cable,
want to get what they pay for. Why
should we have to suffer just so
Global can get t:heir myriad ofJ&
and Tke Kid promos on about four
different channels all at once?
This crap is inexcusable. Something has to be done about this
before we turn on the NCAA championship on April 1st and get the
following
scenario. A team trails
by two in quadruple overtime and
with two seconds left, takes a three
pointer and we hear the following
commentary
: “He gets the ball
inbounds, throws up a three, there’s
the buzzer and it’s.,...Tru&rs,
On
Global.”

What’s an EP=E9e.

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by Heidi Marr
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to Imprint

by Heidi Marr
special
to Imprint

to

n April 20-2 1, the UW Fenc
in& Club is heading
Ot
tawa for the Governor General Tournament.
Road trips are
frequent as the club participates
in
OFA (Ontario Fencing Association)
or Ontario Challenge Circuit tournaments every two months.
Last setnester, UW’s “crazy”
French exchange
student, Oliver
“EP=E9e”
Machet,
won the foil
division
of an OFA
tourney,
“Decernberfest”.
My questions:
What’s the foil division and what
does EP=E9e mean’?
The main fencing weapon is
called a “foil” and this is what club
members learn to use as beginners.
Advanced
members can switch to
the heavier,
longer weapon, the
“EP=E9e”.
With this weapon, the
entire body is target area, including
the feet and head. With a foil, the
torso is the target, while head and
amis are exempt from oncoming
blows.
To protect themselves
from
permanent damage, fencing participants wear a special outfit that consists of fencing pants, socks (kneehighs), court shoes, sous-plastron
(undergarment
for the weapon arm),
jacket, gloves, mask, body wire,
and lamai (a metal jacket for electric fencing).
I asked Thomas Parry, Fencing Club President, to describe a
meeting for me. He said, “A typical
night involves showing up dressed
to perspire.”
On Monday
and Tuesday
nights, coaches drill beginners on
footwork
and the basics for an hour
and a half. New material is introduced for the last hour. The intermediates do their own pair drills,
and then free fence dry (non-clectric) or electric bouts.
Thursday nights are for experienced fencers only. The club runs

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past weekend.
16 teams
plaied in the Campus Ret
reation
volleyball
tournament
in the PAC.
And, these teams came ready
to play some serious volleyball and some serious fun. The
teams were divided into two divisions: a co-recreational
league and
a co-ed competitive
league.
All the teams played three
games in the morning and early
afternoon.
Then, many of the
teams
headed
over
to the
Bombshelrerforaspecial
lunchdeal
for the volleyball tournament.
After lunch, the top six teams in each

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our times a week, approxi
mately 160 UW students get
together for fun and fellowship by hitting the Columbia
Ice
Fields for some great badminton
action. The Badminton Club meets
Wednesdays
8:30- 11:30 pm, Fridays 6:30-9:30 pm, Saturdays I-S
pm, and Sundays 11:30-2:30 pm.
Badminton
is not only fun but
it improves hand-eye coordination,
agility, and mental strategy. This
term, of the 160 members, about 30% are advanced, 30% intermediate, and 40% beginners, so all levels of play
are welcome.
At the meetings,
when members
arrive,
they “check-in”
at the membership board. The executive orianizes
games according to level of play, but if
players have a favourite
opponent,
they can request
matches. Badminton
buffs hit
the courts for 20 minute games and
change up throughout
the meeting.
Tony Chang said the Badminton Club is great because “Our club
not only promotes athletics on campus, we also try to provide a means
for our members to meet outside of
the court to get to know each other.
We provide an outlet for recreational badminton without ignoring
the competitive
spirit in all of us”.
Each term, the club has an average of three completely
subsidized social events. And, every
term, they host a tournament
so
members can show off their skills.
Last weekend, the Badminton
Club had their tourney, Not only
did UW members participate,
but
badminton players from York and
UofT were also invited. Chang said
competition
was stiff and all participants
had to try their best to

F

“YOU

realize,

of course,

that

this means

a fencing ladder where challenges
are made and bouts are scheduled
in sequence. Official scores are recorded and the ladder status is updated on the Fencing Homepage at
http://www.csclub.uwat
erloo.ca/
clubslfenci ng.
Thomas said the Fencing Club
is the best: club on campus “because
we are pumping money and time
back into our club, instead of taking
it out. With $5,000 from a business
sponsorship
and membership
fees,
the club has piped all this money
back intocoaching
andequipment.”
The club has purchased a new
electric machine, blades, jackets,
gloves, body wires, sous-plastrons,
and masks. This expensive
equipment is available for use by experienced members on Thursday nights
for the fencing ladders.
With an even split between
experienced and beginner members,
the club caters to both. Beginner
coaching is offered twice a week
and intermediate clinics are offered
monthly with weekly intermediate

war!”

lessons too. See your Pick It Up
brochure for meeting times as they
may change each term.
The Fencing Club has two socials
each term. One is a movie night
with free grub and the other is a
games night at Weaver’s Arms.
Meetings
and special events
take a lot of organization,
and
Thomas would like to thank his
exec members:
Nicole
Hayes,
Treasurer; Richard Rudy, V.P.; Aric
Cyr, Master of Arms; Brad Winder,
Allan Johnson, John Neu, coaches.
He would also like to express his
gratitude to Brendan McKay,
exprez; Jane Varley, Campus Ret;
“and all others who made this year
the club’s best ever! ! !”
For tnore info about the Fencing Club, check out their website,
or
e-mail
Thomas
at
toparry @ undergrad.math.
For information
on the upcotning trip to
Ottawa, interested members or nonmembers should contact him by the
first week of April. Make 1996 the
year you took up fencing.

Vollevball

Get OUT!

r/

division returned to the gym for the
single elimination play-off rounds.
Competition was
I
tough for the
chance
- to play

w

in the final game.
In the end,
HUH? defeated TAPE in a tough

game to win the Co-recreational
division.
In the competitive
division, Cheap Sunglasses beat Onslaught to win their division.
Special thanks to all of the
teams. It was great fun to watch
your games. Thanks also
to the PAC staff, especially
Josh and Kristi who did a
great job with clean-up.
Big, big thanks to the convenor. Erica Brand1 and the
officials
for your great job and
your hard work made the tournament run really smoothly.
Thanks
for a highly
entertaining
day.
Thanks to the Mike and Larry at the
Bombshelter.
See you next titne. It was a
blast!

win-there
were no dominating singles players or teams in the Men’s
or Women’s
Doubles.
Friday
night saw Men and
Women Singles fight it out in the
Finals. In Women’s Singles action,
Susan Ho took the#l spot, with My
Linh coming in at a close second.
In the Men’s Division,
the top
two seeded players, Jason Wong
from UofT and Rahul Vaidyanath
from UW played for the title.
Vaidyanath
squeezed by Wong for
the win.
Saturday
action saw Men’s,
Women’s,
and Mixed
Doubles play but unfortunately,
thetour~lament ran overtime and
some teams from Toronto couldn’t
finish
their games.
In Men’s Doubles,
the top two seeded teams
played: Jeff Raaphost and
Jef’f Sum of Waterloo were
ranked #I but lost to Dennis
Ng and Minh Hao, also of
Waterloo.
Women’s
Doubles
saw Yin
Man, UofT’s
#I Female Varsity
Player, and Suzanne Wu beat Susan
Ho and My Linh of Waterloo.
Jeff Sum and Millie Chung
looked sure to win the Mixed Doubles but they had to leave the tournament eally and therefore pulled
out of the finals. Brian Li and Susan
Ho then beat Michael
Li and
Augusta Yeung.
The tournament
was a great
success and Tony assured me that
“After a hard day of competition,
participants
got some food”.
If you’re interested in joining
the Badminton
Club, or you just
want more information,
contact
Tony
Chang at 886-6679
or
tchang@mechanical.
Check; out their website
at
http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/
clubs/badminto
or hook up with the
newsgroup:
uw.clubs.badminton.

by Daniela
special

A

Hermann
t4 Imprint

s the end of term is ap
proaching
&he Outers
Club has its end of term
potluck
party next Monday,
March 25 at 6 p.m. in the Grad
House. All members are invited.
Please
contact
Siiren
Peik
(speik@lenz)
for more inforrnation. The equipment
room will
be open at the regular times
(Tuesdays and Thursdays
from
4:30 to 530 p.m.) until April 2.
After this date contact Fabrice
Jaubert
(fjaubert@watcgl)
or
contact
Karsten
Verbeurgt

(kaverbeu I@neumann)
for special arrangements
with regard to
equipment rentals.
Two events have been announced for this Sunday. Koorus
Bookan (kbookan@ watarts) will
be taking members to a maple
syrup farm at a nearby conservation
are:a.
James
Taylor
(tayl5980@machl
.wlu.ca)
will
offer the last kayak session at the
PAC pool for this term from 8- 10
p.m.
The first general meeting in
the spring term is scheduled for
Monday,
May 6 at MC2066.
Regular equipment
room hours
will resume the same week.

A ScaryForeign
Film It’s MILLER Time!
The Crucible
Theme of the Arts
March 27 to 30
by Patrick
Wilkins
Imprint
stafTf

N
Wat

trok

haar

in die muzick?

Antonia’s
Line
directed by Marleen Gorris
playing at the Princess Cinema
until Tuesday March 26

bY Myfanwy
Imprint

staff

-n-Y

F

oreign films scare some people. They think of strange
French films with subtitles
and a lot of sex. Antonia k Linr is
different:
it’s Dutch. It is also an
incredibly
inspiring story about the
corruption
ofreligion,
the beauty of
strength, and the tiberation of the
sexes. Set in the Dutch countryside
at the end of World
War II,
Antonio ‘,y Line is the chronicle of
the wise, independent
Antonia
(Willeke
Van
Ammelrooy).
Throughout
her life, there emerges
over four generations of women as
strong as she. Watching
her, they

home.
Here, the village priest pointedly preaches against illegitamate
children, but when Antonia catches
the priest at his own sex crimes, he
changes his tone and preaches acceptance.
When Danielie gives birth to
Therese, it is apparant from the
start that this is no ordinary child.
Therese, at age six, debates metaphysics with Crooked Finger, the
local hermit. She studies the meanings of life and time with him,
expanding his intellect as much as
he expands
hers. Danielte
and
Therese’s teacher, Lara (Elsie De
Rrauw), experience love under the
approving
eyes of Antonia, who
has a lover on a nearby farm.
Letta leaves the city to live on
Antonia’s
fdrrn, where she finds
both joy and sex with the Curate, a
liberated priest. At twenty, Therese

ext Wednesday
through
Saturday, the University of Waterloo Drama Department
presents The C’mcibie, a
historical tale of good and
evil. Written
by Arthur
Miller (also known for his
award-WinningpIayDeaIh
of a Salesman
and his
marriage
to Marilyn
Monroe),
the play is historically based in late seventeenth-century
Salem,
Massachusetts.
When
a group
of
young women are found
dancing (an unforgivable
demonstration
of lust), the
Puritan community
calls
for an inquiry. Judges are
brought in to hold trials,
and the women are caught
up in witchcraft
hysteria.
For the first time, these
young Puritan women are
given -. power.
.
_They begin
_ .
imphcating
the undesirDanielle
able - immigrants,
the
poor, alcoholics.
Abigail, one-time servant and
mistress to John Proctor,
impli-

MacIsartc
Mupie Leaf Gardens
Monday March 19

at age six, debates
with the local hermit.

by Greg
Imprint
learn to face life with her same
passion and openness.
Antonia
and her daughter,
Danielle (Els Dotterman),
return
to the farm of Antonia’s
birth.
There, Daniellc sees corruption
at
the heart of the church, imagining
angelic statues shoving priests over
and Christ smiling on his cross.
She liberates the retarded DeeDee
from her brother’s sexual ravaging3
and brings her to live on the farm,
where DeeDee marries Loony Lips,
the village simpleton.
Artistic,
creative,
and independent, Danielle decides she wants
to have a child without a husband.
At this

wish,

Antonia

takes

Danielle to the city, where they
meet Letta (Wimie Wilhelm),
who
volunteers her blond brother for the
job. He and Danielle spend the day
in a hotel room while Antonia
drinks tea outside. After a series of
pregnancy-inducing
handstands,
Danielle
and her mother return

also discovers the freedoms of sex;
experimenting
with her inteltectual equals dissatisflies her. Only
when she looks to her home, does
she find love with Simon, Letta’s
son. When their Sarah is born, the
story
is brought
full circle.
Antonia’s
greatest joy, Sarah is
closest to her in both strength and
wisdom. Her young eyes face tragedy and joy, watching and learning
from her great-grandmother
the
complexities
of life.
As Antonia’s time draws to a
close, she surrounds herself with
her loved ones. Sarah watches hoping to understand
the miracle of
death,

Therese

to understand

time,

and Danielle
to bid farwell.
Antonia’s Line comes to an end as
inspiring as its journey.
Her continuance is confirmed
in the movie’s final words:
“As this long chronicle draws
to its finish, nothing has come to an
end.”

Ament

and

Calvin

Zweers.

He must choose between signing a
false confession, and living, or hot ding to the truth, and being hung.

Written
in 1952, just before
Miller was himself put under trial
in the McCalrthy ‘witch hunts,’ The
Crucible
is not only a look at the
seventeenth
century, but also the
twentieth. It examines the dark side
of humanity., not in sordid tales of
demonic worship but in our treatment of fellow citizens.
Darlene Spencer, direlctor of Thu Cmcible,
calls the play “good to
get a perspective
on real
events in history.”
This
production,
she hopes,
will avoid the excessive
melocirama of other versions, in favourofa
more
complex analysis of the
levels of emotion inherent in Salem’s
class
struggle.
This year’s production, three months in the
making, invotves about
one hundred people, including twenty-two
actors and fifty techies,
both professionals
and
student volunteers.
7’hrJ
Crucihlc
runs
nexl
Wednesday
to Saturday
at the University
of Wa-,
terloo Theatre
of the
Arts. Tickets are $10 for
the general public, $8
for students and seniors, available
at the Theatre Centre Box Office in
Hagey Hall, or by calling 8884408.

Y~ICS
I Am.. .Entertained
Melissa Etheridge w/Ashley

Therese,
metaphysics

cates her lover’s wife. No longer
are the ‘witches’ the dregs of society -- Elizabeth Proctor is a well
respected farmer’s wife. The witch
trials become political tools, used
to eliminate
social and political
enemies. In the confusion, John too
is accused of witchcraft
and jailed.

T

Picken
staff

here were originally two reasons why I wanted to see this
show: one, I wanted the
chance to go to the Gardens, and
two, i wanted
to see Ashley
Maclsaac
play live. I thought
Melissa Etheridge was a nice bonus. As it turned out, I was slightly
wrong.
Apparently
Ashley MacTsaac
was good. I don’t know for sure,
since I didn’t make it to the Gardens until after he’d performed.
Got it, sat down and admired the
majesty that is Maple Leaf Gardens, lights went out, and then
there was Melissa Etheridge.
Ah
well, I’ll catch Ashley next time.
So much has been made about
‘Melissa Etheridge being a lesbian,
and how great that is for the gay
community.
This is both a good
and a bad thing, as she also stands
to lose the interest of homophobic
morons who don’t want to support

anything but “cock rock.” If I like
an artist, I rarely concern myself
with anything but their music, and
after last night, I wouldn’t
care if
she slept with goats:
Melissa
Etheridge rocks.
The first thing that grabbed
my attention was Melissa’s
stage
presence. Performing
on a spartan
stage with only a few curtains,
speakers and a drum set, she commanded the attention of everyone
in the audience.
She toyed with
them, interacted
with them and
generally seemed to have as much
fun as they did.
The second thing that perked
my ears was that the set, plus the
two immediate encores, lasted two
and one half hours. 150 minutes of
hard hitting rock ‘n’ roll and smoky
ballads and despite professing
to
having a cold. To me, that seems
almost inhuman by today’s standards.
That Etheridge
is a lesbian
came into play in some of the leadins to her songs, but only took
centre stage for “Silent Legacy.”
Melissa
played most of the
tracks off her last two albums Y&r
Little Secret and Yes I Am, and
went back into her first three al-

bums for a few tracks. Included in
her performance
were the usual
spate of hits “Come to my Window,” “1 Want to Come Over,”
“Your Little Secret” and “‘I’m the
Only One.”
The highlight ofthe show could
very well have been after the rest of
the band disappeared
back stage
and Etheridge played a pair of songs
acoustically,
including “Occasionally,”
which she performed
a
Capella, beating out the drum line
on the back of her guitar. The second encore brought the show to a
close two and a half hours later
with “The War is Over,” the powerful last song from
Y0ur Little
Secret, and a fitting end to the
show.
While Melissa was terrific, the
rest of her band was incredible as
well. Lead guitarist John Shanks
grooved on solo after solo, as did
the bass player Mark Browne and
drummer
Dave Beyer. Together,
the four created a fantastic night of
music, and qu:ite nearly blew the Iid
off the joint.
And to round everything
out, 1
saw a hooker on the streets for the
first time in my short life. WOW,
what a great night.

For the
Fugees w/ The Roots
Phnemix Cuncert HalI
Wednesday
March 13

I

get mad frustrated
when I
rhyme, thinking about the kids
that are doin’ this for all the
wrong reasons.. .‘*
What is Lauryn
Hill of the
Refugee C’amp talking about? Is
she trying to say that there are
peopIe out there making rhymes
that shouldn’t be? Is she trying to
tell us that she could be the female
MC with the tightest flow? Well,
after her performance
at the Phoenix last Wednesday,
I don’t think
anyone can dispute it. Fugees came
positively
rugged, and within the
Haitian clique, Hill shone like a
ruby in the sand.
Fugees brought with them the
essence of hip hop -- crazy beats
bloated with bass, untouchable
lyrics, and an element many probably
did not expect - live instruments.
It
was kind of assumed that the drums
and electric guitars and all those

Kookoo
Koko

by David
Imprint

K

Taylor w/Mel Brown
John Hammond
Lull4 ‘s
Friday March 15

&

Drewe
staff

oko Taylor, for the many
who don’t know, is the
Queen of the Blues.
Inducted into the blues hall of fame
last month,
she demonstrated at Lulu’s last Friday
all the reasons why she will
be remembered
for years, as
one of the legends of the
roots of rock.
Mel Brown opened the
show, with a spectacular
show as always.
His laidback style of power-guitar
blues was just what the show
needed to start off with a
kick.
Playing many of his
familiar standby cover tunes,
such “Born
Under a Bad
Sign,” “If 6 was 9,” and
“Sweet Home Chicago,” Mel
rocked the house. Ofcourse,
if you were going there just
to see Mel Brown, you may
have felt a bit ripped off.
Mel played the same songs
he plays in bars around K-W
every week, with a much
John
smaller cover for admittance.
John Hammond’s set, however,
turned around the feel of the music.
From Mel Brown’s
power guitar
and full band, the sound changed to
a one-man
blues explosion,
as
Hammond
played solo, singing,
playing
guitar,
with occasional
harmonica
riffs. For those of you
who recognize
the name, John
Hammond
is actually
John
Hammond,
Jr., son of the legendary blues producer,
best-knuwn
among our generation for his work
with the late, great, Stevie Ray

Heads

“live” props would be pushed aside
to make room for the keyboards,
synthesizers
and such after the
Roots performed.
But the Roots
left the herb-filled
forum after a
dope show and left a11 of their instruments on the stage. After one of
Brooklyn’s
finest DJs performed a
hype set, I wondered when the hell
they were going to clear all of those
instruments
off the stage so Fugees
could get down. But like a red-eyed
Jimi Hcndrix,
Wyclef emerged on
stage, picked up an electric guitar,
and proceeded to play some nextlevel vibes with his teeth. My first
thought was that I was buggin’ off
some of the ill blends of chronic
floating around my head. Giancing around me, however, I realized
there were mad heads trippin’ out,
actually feeling the music.
That’s
when I knew it was all real.
It was a sold out show, and
after getting dissed at the door (I
can’t believe they didn’t know who
I was - Imprint
staff runs things
in T.O. man, damn,) we cooled out
in the waiting room, and then found
a chill spot at the back of the club.
L0cal talent, or let’s just say local

by Edward
Richards
Imprint
staff

27

ARTS

IMPRINT, Friday, March 22,1996

artist, Thrust, opened the show,
followed by the Roots. With a style
all their own, they schooled a lot of
people in terms of how illy-Philly
represents. Minus a couple of members though, it was obvious that
although they rocked the house for
a solid hour, they didn’t come as
hard as they could have. Don’t get
me wrong - they were as crisp as
sunburnt skin, but Fugees were the
stars of the evening.
To be quite honest, Fugees
didn’t explode until the beautiful
Lauryn stepped on stage.
With
rhymes for days, she formed the
foundation
of the Fugees’ lyrical
fortress.
The highlight
of their
performance
was the freestyle session. Wyclcf
made R&l3 lovers
cringe when his grand finale included the lyrics ‘Land 1 don’t run
out of lyrics like RKelly,
talking
about you remind of my jeep.”
I must give Fugees infinite
props.
Their show was a little
short, but it was full of intensity
and fire. Like their track “Ready
Or Not” professes, you can’t run.
You can’t hide from the wrath of
the Refugee Camp.

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for Koko
Vaughan.
In fact, Vaughan’s
album In Step was dedicated
to
Hammond
Sr.
Hammond’s
songs included a
many traditional
blues numbers,
with the set dominated by reworked
Robert Johnson songs. “Travellin
Riverside
Blues,” was one of the
high points of Hammond’s
set, as
was his rendition of Elmore James’
“Dust My Broom.”
Hammond’s
slide guitar was

“Pretty Woman,”
also by Albert
King (do not confuse with the piece
of shit of the same name by Roy
Orbison).
When these h~u songs ended
more than twenty minutes later, a
friend commented
to me that the
finales to their songs were longer
than most alternative songs. All 1
could say as a reply was that their
finales were longer
than most
Ramones albums.
And finally,
Koko
Taylor took the stage.
She dedicated her first
song to blues fans, her
second song, “Beer Ball
Boogie,” to beer drinkers, and followed them
up with “Let Me Love
You Baby,” popularized
by Stevie Ray Vaughan
and Jeff Beck.
Taylor’s
set was
straight
Chicago-style
blues. It wasn’t until I
wandered
close to the
stage that I realized just
how great a performer
Taylor
is. There she
was, a woman
damn
close to -- if not already
in -- her sixties, putting
on a stage show as energetic as most up-andcoming bands manage.
Hammond’s
One-man
Blues Explosion.
Her voice was so powerphenomenal.
For most of his set,
fill that she dominated
the stage
he was using a steel Dobro for his
even whi1e holding the microphone
songs.
It’s hard to describe just
more than a fuotjbn
her face!
how good his sound was, but if
Her finale was Howlin’ Wolf’s
you’ll pardon a bit of what may
“Wang
Dang Doodle,”
which
brought the crowd out of their seats
seem to be rhetoric;
it was beyond
belief just how good Hammond
is.
and filled the dance floor. She soon
returned for an encore of “Sweet
Finally, Koko Taylor and Her
Blues Machine took stage. Well,
Home Chicago.”
The problem with a concert
actually the Blues Machine took
stage without Koko Taylor to do a
review
for someone
of Koko
few songs. An excellent band, they
Taylor’s age and magnitude is that
opened with Albert King’s “Crosswe don’t know when, or if, she’ll be
back But if she is, check her out.
cut Saw,” and followed it up with

revious to the start of last
Thursday’s
concert
at
the Bomber,
I’m not
sure that many in the audience
were fluently
familiar
with
Heather Nova’s work. She’s a
fairly recognizable
name, has
a single on the radio, and, well,
what the hell, it’s only six
bucks !o get in.
By the time her performance was over, however, more
than one person (myself
included) had become converts
to her sound, and her incredible vocal range.
She looks overwhelmingly normal - dressed like
anyone else in the bar, guitar
slung over her neck in typical
fashion.
But that voice!
It
swung and swooped through
many different styles, making
her sound like Kristy Thirsk,
Liz Fraser, and a signifigantly
less whiny Dolores O’Riordan

8:30 p.m.

All ages show - All welcome!

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REVOLUTION
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b-7 I

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$15.00 students ; $17.00 other
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all in one body.
It was quite an
otherworldy
experience for the listener standing dully with a beer in
their hand.
Framing all of this was a solid
set of backup
players
that also
shifted and changed styles through
the performance.
On one end of the

Clove

supporting
Heather Nova
Lee 3 Palace, Torunto
Wednesday
March 13

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by Ohad

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Imp&t

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w

ere this four-piece called
Clove came from, who
knows, but where they’re
going, at least in the immediate
future, is somewhat predictable.
The band, which plays a mix
of slow and fast, guitar-based
quick
drum college happy young straightup rock’n’roll,
but fronted by the
sweet voice of a woman, is releas-

in her

Fridav. March 22.1996

Nova

heart.

ing an album in about a month’s
time, Roller Coaster, which should
mean that they’ll be doing opening
gigs like this one for what will feel
like a lifetime.
During their thirty-five
minute
set, their power-pop
tunes earned
solid applause
from the mature
[read: 19+] crowd at Lee’s on this
blustery
Wednesday
night.
Personally, I thought the band’s slower
tunes were more entertaining.
Not

scale was a stripped down, acoustic
cover of Springsteen’s
“I’m On
Fire” that more than did justice to
the original.
On the other was the
closing song, a right rocking piece
with squawling
guitars and big
bashing beats. In short, she did it
ail. A notable fixture in the band
was a full-time cellist, which
perfectly complemented
the
almost
baroque
feel to
Heather’s voice.
Heather also brought
along b,y far the most elaborate light show I’ve ever
seen in the small confines
of the Bomber.
A white
sheet hung at the back of the
stage, upon which were projected a series of endlessly
scrolling images, all in full
colour. It almost made the
band look as though they
were rushing through space
to match the thrilling loops
Heather’s voice navigated.
A final song that
ended the evening sounded
not a little
like Bettie
Serveert, and with an endorsement like that, you can
safely say it was a more than
entertaining
evening.

only are there about a million and one speedy bottom
heavy altema-acts
out there
right now, but Clove’s
slower songs really allowed
the lead singer to use her
above average voice to its fullest,
instead ofjust ranting along, trying
to keep up like some of the faster
tunes. The slower songs were far
more melodic than the loud ones,
but the loud songs got just as much
applause as the slow ones.
Anyway, clheck them out if they
make it to Waterloo or your hometown in the next white - they just
may have a bright titure and they’re
definitely not a waste of time.

A real snow 7 Job
l

i

Snow Jam ‘96: Hi-Standard,
88
Fingers Louie, Ten Foot Pole,
No Use For A Name
Volcano
Thursday March 14
by Patrick

Imprint

Wilkins
staff

now Jam ‘96: If this is what
punk is about, then I’ll eat my
Buzzcocks
singles. The punk
of today is merely a shadow of the
punk of yesterday.
And “modem
punk” by any other name would not
only be as frantic, it would also
avoid the inevitable comparisons
to
the Clash and the Pistols that are the
bane of three-chord
garage thrashers from the LA to Vancouver
to
Bristol and beyond.
Which is not to say that it’s all
bad. Standing in line for admission
(doors open at 9:00, first band goes
on at 9: 15, apparently)
I heard a
great cover of “California
Dreaming” by a band who turned out to be
Hi-Standard.
The Japanese
trio
slammed through halfa dozen more

S

great little songs, matched with an
endearingly
simple stage personality. So far, so good.
Second band on was 88 Fingers Louie, from Chicago. The lead
singer
was the most
racist,
homophobic
asshole I have ever
had the misfortune
to see onstage.
He made fun of Hi-Standard’s
accents. He put on a fake lisp for some
derogatory
comments
which will
not be repeated here. He spit on the
crowd and assaulted an Imprint
cameraman.
His stage presence reminded
me of that of my high school’s allGreen Day cover band, all posing
and unnecessary
swearing.
With
that sort of loser onstage, I don’t
care how good the music is. In this
case, it was more of the same
“modem
punk,” much less interesting than Hi Standard. The audience didn’t seem too impressed,
either.
Ten Foot Pole, from Los Angeles, were better. Perhaps aware
of the comments
made by 88 Fingers Louie, the band took time to

counteract
them. Their punk was
more varied, incorporating
thrash
and metal playing as well as a sense
of melody. No Use For a Name
were almost as good, with more
anti-racist lyrics and a true sense of
entertainmentBut in the end? Snow Jam ‘96,
Kitchener,
was not worth the $12
price of admission.
I would, however, have liked to attend the Snow
Jam shows in Toronto with Trigger
Happy and d.b.s., my two favourite
Canadian modem punkers. When
Trigger Happy played last month,
they put on one of the most incredible shows I have ever seen, yet the
Volcano
was surprisingly
unpacked. Snow Jam ‘96 comes along,
with big American
Epitaph bands
headlining,
anId skatepunkers
are
lined up starting at noon.
Every band onstage seemed
like a Trigger Happy imitator, mediocre at best. It’s a sad statement
on how Canadiian music is regarded
in our own country, or perhaps on
how American
music is unnecessarily glorified.

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Mahones

The Bonzbsheiter
Friday March 15
by Kieran
Green
Imprint
staff

A

hhhh... finally some BOOM
Irish culture
amidst the
annual pointless boozefest
that is St. Paddy’s
Day at the
Bomber.
I don’t mean the friggin’
green beer or stupid foam hats either. I mean The Mahones.
This Kingston band is the best
thing to happen to Irish music since
Shane Mac&wan.
Those with
stamina who stuck it out the whole
day m the Bomber were treated, not
once but twice, to their unique combination oftraditional
celtic sounds
and hard-core,
high-energy
punk.
They’re
like the Irish Rovers on
speed.
The Mahones’ afternoon show
pulled the most energetic audience
response that I have ever seen at a
rnatimx gig at the Bomhcr.
People
were dancing and cheering,
and
mast of them weren’t even drunk
yet!
The Mahones always seem to
draw energy from the crowd, and
then pump it right back into them.
The Bomber is a fairly ideal venue
for the Mahones, because it allows
them to be right close to the audience (although I wish there was a
lot more dance floor space).
The evening show was one of
the best perfbrmances
I have ever
seen The Mahones give (and 1 have
been to a lot of Mahoncs shows).
They had not lost any energy from
their afternoon
show, and they
maintained that energy throughout
a single, non-stop set that lasted
almost three hours.
Musically,
The Mahones surpassed themselves
Friday night.
They were engaging in some interesting experimentation
with their
songs, especially
in the instrumen-

tal pieces like Cragatuskn.
Bassist
Owen Wamica had some particularly inventive
solos.
Other bands could also learn
something
from
the way The
Mahones order their songs in their
performances.
The Mahoncs have
a core set of songs, favourites
like
“Drinking
in the USA”, “Draggin’
the Days, ” and of course 23-unken
Lazy Bastard” which fans expect to
hear at every show. Bands that rely
entirely on their stock songs (i.e.
The Rolling Stones) eventually become old and stale. The Mahones
have a skill for balancing the old
favourites
with new works like
“Rise Again,”
keeping the fans
happy and keeping the band fresh.
Of course, in honour of St.
Paddy’s Day, they threw in some
traditional Irish drinking songs like
“Wild Rover” and “The Ballad of
the Irish Rover.”
During their encore, The Mahones even played the
first song they ever learned, an
lrish children’s
song.
One of the new pieces that
appeared on the play list Friday
night was “Celtic Dreams,” a song
which
will be featured
in an
upcoming Dan Ackroyd film about
the Boston Celtics. That song will
appear on their new album, which
they promised would be out in the
next month or two.
I talked to
Finton McConnell
between
the
shows about the new album.
He
said it would have some familiar
stuff to keep fans happy, perhaps a
reprise of traditional
fave “Haul
Away Jack,” as well as a host of
new material.
The new material,
he said, would be heavier, closer to
The
Mahones’
punk
roots.
McConnell
commented
that he
would be picking up the electric
guitar for some of the songs.
So keep an eye out for The
Mahones’
new album, and delinitely watch for future Mahones
shows. Forget the green beer, these
guys arereal Irish. Pogutl mahone!

ure’s Jordy Birch calls on the wrong phone line. “Call back at extension 5 127,” this
unwary Imprint
interviewer
asks. “Extension
1257’?” asks the voice from an unnamed
reviewer suddenly realizes
hotel room. “No, 5 127.” “ 27 I5?” comes the reply. Imprint
that he’s speaking to the man who brought the world the twisted melodic-synth-fuzz-punkpopcore sounds of Pure, and it all makes sense. “Yes, extension 666,” he replies, and hangs
up. Ten seconds later Mr. Birch calls back at the correct number.
“What’s harkening ?” he asks. And thus begins an interview
with the frontman of one of
Canada’s best musical exports, the band behind the offbeat sounds of Greed, Puwufunalia,
Generatim
&Puck, and Extvti furestricrl.
Since 199 1, when they were first hailed as “The
next best thing since Guns ‘n’ Roses,” through their signing and leaving of the US’s Reprise
Records. to creating Shag, The Record Label, gigs across North America and Australia, Pure
have it cril harkening.
See for yourself at their Thursday, March 28th Bombshelter
show. A
word of warning I take everything
you read here with a grain of Pacific Ocean sea salt. After
all, Jordy is, by his own admission, crazy all the time...
Kim Fowley called you “The next big thing
since Guns ‘n’ Roses.” Are you?
You know how soundbites go. We met
this guy at a music conference and he wanted
to have US for life, SO% for life, He’s a very
insane man, extremely
insane. He was telling us about how he produced Helen Reddy
and we’re going, “Well, who cares, we don’t
want to be like Helen Reddy!”
He didn’t
understand that and he took us out for dinner.
Somebody pulled the fire alarm, I’m not sure
if it was him or not, and the entire hotel had
to come out to the front. He was asking all the
women who were in their nightrobes
if they
wanted to go to his room afterwards,
saying
“I’m single and I’m straight!”
You went to the States first, on the Reprise
label, then returned to Canada. What does

that mean to you, the whole issue about
being Canadian?
At the moment,
it’s extra-large
to be
Canadian. It’s very in vogue. Everywhere
we
go we’ve always taken a flag with us, so to
speak. We’ve always been proud of our accents, our way of life and our culture, just the
whole deal. We have such a country that’s so
diverse and so peaceful and so happy, as
compared to a lot of other people. I’m really
proud of where we’re from. The more you
look at it, the more you realize how beautiful
a country it is. It could be a little warmer...
You do a lot of playing in the States. How
do you find the States in comparison?
Audiences
seem to b a little more psychotic there. They go off a bit more, a little bit
more. For example, the Turret show was a

pretty good show. Peopie went off, were into
it, They seemed really excited to see us. I
remember that show pretty vividly. The Turret goes down as one of my top ten shows...
I think it’s because I was really excited to see
everybody
too. But like, at Baltimore,
this
was just a radio show and everyone
went
berserk for our music. It was unreal, It’s a
different vibe in the States.
You’ve
had opportunities
to do
lots of things that
most
bands
haven’t,
working
for a label, working
for yourself,
playing
the
States,
Canada,
Australia.
You’re quite lucky,
For sure. That’s
what it’s all about. I
don’t know if we’ll be
an independent
band
for a long time. I’m
open to the whole experience. We all are.
We want to do the international
tour circuit. That’s our goal,
because we want to
see other countries.
That’s a big reason
we do this, is to
travel, A lot of people like to travel, and
we’re no different.
We do this to play
music and to travel.
If we could
sell
shoes and travel, we
would.
I took a Iook at
your Internet
site
[http://
vaxxine.comlsoil
pure.html]
put up
by Todd Simko,and
there were some really weird prospective
titles
on it,
Hooked
on Sonics,
Ridin ’ on an &Bull,
Fez People, Pissed as
u Cricket and L&n
’
It, and my favourite,
My Father AIways
Told Me to Stuy
Away
from
the
Magnetic
Deer
Paw.
Ummmmm...
well... How can I
put this gently?
Todd really hits the
wine. He really gets
loaded
on the
Internet.
There
have been times
I’ve had to stop
him from going
on the Internet
I
and saying, “I’m
rL,,

-.:r..-

-la-.--

from Pure and I’m naked.” Todd, I know this
is all promotion,
buddy, but no thanks!
So it’s not going to be called My Futher
Always
Told Me to Stay Away from the
Magnetic
Deer Paw?
Well, in his mind, it is. The big thing
with him right now is, “What’s with the price
of cheese?” He just one night, naked and
drunk, was running around his neighbourhood on the west end of Vancouver,
screaming, “What’s with the price of cheese?” His
girlfriend
had to stop him and put him back
in the apartment.
Sounds like it’s a fun time out on the road.
Do you get along with everybody?

Actually,
me and ‘Todd are very different, very different ways. He think’s that I’m
crazy. He’s very normai until he just lets
loose, but he’s repressed. He lets go when he
drinks. Me, 1 just let go all the time.
I’ve been listening to all the albums consecutively,
and it struck me that you’ve
made a move in your songwriting
from
songs about social issues, like “Greedy”
aind “Spiritual
Pollution” and onto stuff
from Extru Purestriui,
more personal songs.
Kids songs. Children’s
tunes.

Is that what you consider it?
Eventually,
that’s what I’d like to
do.

Under
name?

the

Pure

Yeah. “God Intended for Me to Surf’
started out as a children’s story for my
son. I hope eventually when he’s older
he’ll be able to read
this and think
it’s
funny.
Wlhat does the band
think of this?
They think it’s great.
I’m getting the sufing
squirrel set to illustrations at the moment.
1
want to put it out. I think
kid’s books are really
good. I think it’s really
important.
Somebody
said, “Those words are
a little too complicated
for kids. You can’t say
‘critical
peers.’ Kids
don’t know what that
means.” I said, “Yeah.
That’s a good reason
toput kids books out!”
Reading is very important. Television
is
not. Tetevision can be
important,
but at the
moment, a lot of people aren’t
reading
enough.
Is the next album
I going to be a children’s
album?
It’s definitely
not going to be a children’s
record. The next album
we do is probably going
to rock very, very, very
much. It’s going to be
‘azy-ass.
3 Warner
comes along
Id signs you and the
txtalbumyouputoutis
Slinky the Squirrel
Goes
I 4- Boston or something?
Wouldn’t that be cool?
I heard an interview
a
ago where you said that you
Prrreufunaliu
because it was

little while
didn’t like
overproduced...
It was a little slick.
What’s your favourite
4album now?
EP (Extra
Purestrl!‘al).
I think we’re
always growing, but we took a step backwards with Pureafunalia.
1 think Greed was
cool, Pureajimalia
was not as cool, but it had
its merits. &Pack I thought was cool. EP is
my favourite now, not because it’s the newest
thing, but because it’s got the most soul.
Do people know you’re new wave now?
I think they’ve alwa;ys known that, man.

Reissue! Reissue! Repackage!
:

SleepiQg”, “A Day
Without You”!
Live versions

7 esterday”

in the Life’* a& “Within

of
and

3%

when

the real, complete,

finished

Oldsn

tpyer, why thifi compilaGm

to Ride”‘!
Unreleased
songs
including
the “new”
Beatles
song “Real
Love”!
All of it, utter
shite I
Extraneous
tape
hiss, false starts, mindless chatter before and
L
after songs, failed studio
experiments,
strained vocats and at some points, the utter
breakdown
of the classic McCartney/Lennon
harmony plague v&&y
every track on this
cumpilation.
Such UI obvious act of heinous
gluttony must not go unpunished.
Somehow,
somewhere,
somebody must pay,
This compilation
had to be’ tit. Before

Everyone knows “Yesterday.‘”
And everyone knows the same version. Y?w~
is unly me Persian. Tampering
with Beat’tes
songs is tamper&g with history, with feelings3
menwries,
times and places. Even a Gen-Xer
such as myself has beard these goddamn songs

Krafchick
staff

A brief history of Sting’s
musical career:
1978 - An English band called the
Police release their first album
called Outlandos
d ‘Amour, with
one Gordon Sumner aka Sting (for
it is in vogue to have bizarre pseudonyms if you belong to a band in
the late seventies eg. Bono, Captain Sensible) on vocals. Incorporating the in vogue style of using
reggae beats with a certain punk/
new wave feel, the band provided a
more well read and pop friendly
;untwpart
to the snarling punk of
the day. An entertaining
debut.
ZY7Y-1982 - The Police released
four more albums, culminating
in

After breaking
through onto
the charts withIn the Trees and the
hit singles “Boneyard
Tree” and
“All Uncovered,”
it would be fair to
expect a solid third album from
Winnipeg
foursome
The Watchmen. Brand New Day exceeded all
expectations
for me.
What has always stood as a
trademark
of the band is their ability to mix hard rock beats and mellow ballad sounds together not just
on one album, but on one song.
That can be heard on the current
single “Incarnate,”
which is receiving more than enough airplay
and videoflow
to make it a hit.
While retaining the methods that
first brought them success, Brand
New Day has also allowed them to
branch out, incorporating
some new
sounds and tempos, and enhancing
and improving
their sound,
From
the first
chords
of
“Zoom” to the last sounds of “What
You Did,” there is hardly a weak
track on this CD, and several that
stand out. My personal favorite on

the disc is the second track, “Shut
up.” It showcases the ability of the
band to play together as a unit,
without one member overshadowing the rest of the band. Track four,
“Dance Some More” is set to an
unusual samba beat with a nice
accent of trumpet and sounds very
different from today’s standard radio fare. The songs on this album
avoid falling into one category of
music or droning into each other,
and instead each stands on its own,
apart from the rest.
How this transition
in sound
translates
into live performances
will soon be revealed when they
begin touring in support of the album. Knowling how energetic and
exciting they were last summer at
the Molson Amphitheatre,
its a safe
bet audiences will be grooving to
the latest sounds of the Watchmen
all summer long.
With Brand New Day, the
Watchmen
haven’t just rehashed
the formula that brought them success with la the Trees. They’ve
grown, expanded, and created an
album of very original, occasionally experimental
songs. The
Watchmen
have shown themselves
to be a rising force on the Canadian
music scene, and if&-LzndfVew Day
does anything, it cements that reputation.

lute last nail in the coffin of
his credibility,
courtesy of his
vile, wretched
collaboration
with Bryan Adams and Rod
Stewart on “All For Love.”
1996 - A 45 year old Sting (I
think
a name change
to
“Numb”
would
be more
appropiate by now) saunters
forth with his sixth “effort”
Mercury Fulling.
It has slide
guitar!
Stultifyingly
boring
arrangements!
Pendantic lyrics in both English
and
French! It is.. .complete shit!
Sting tells the Toronto Sun he
no longer feels the need to
“rot k out.”
He appears on
Regis and Kathie Lee. Need I
say more?
200.3 - A 52-year old Sting happily
announces that the Police are to do
a reunion tour to celebrate the 25th
anniversary
ofOu tlandm d ‘Amour,
and td make “scads of money.”
Called the “Sell Your Body to the
Night”
tour, fans in Toronto
are

asked to choose between Molson
Park, the Skydome and a stadium
to be built over the entirety of a
bulldozed
Scarborough
(capacity
1,072,OUO) as a venue.
And a splendid time is guaranteed for all.

by Greg Picken
Imprint

staff

z

a millian times and a

new
version
doesn’t work.

just
Few, if

any, artis& have a
songbook
so wellknownas the Beades’,
but if a demo vmion
of, say, Y3urr1 in the
UlS.A7’
or ‘“Baba

O’Rcilly”or “Another
Brick in the Wall”
were to be released toi
day, the artists would
be laughed at if they
tried to pa& the soxlgs

thesesongs eve&r&e the airwaves, youcoul~
predict tlhat this was going to be a musical
abortion. There are two essential reasons as to
why this had to be so -- empirical ~~IXXXIS that.
don’t even require
you listening
to this
cashgrab.
First of al 1 you have to realize that, espti ally
when dealing with this point in time, the Be; :Ies’
were a sttldio band. Abandoning
five shows afig mthe.
‘66 Candlestick
conceti, the Beatles (much to heir
own benefit) turned their atiention to George &! Lftin
and the EMI studios.
The recording
process that came out oF their
virtual seclusion
was innovative,
experimental
and
ultimatety, musically brilliant. The Beatles weremaking and breaking the rules at the same time.
Exueriments
such as the inchtsion
of a string

is both unnecessary

md. ii.&.
.Eveyone knows’ “Welp,”
Evefyone knows “Tmu*T

‘Ticket

by Greg
Imprint

masterpiece Is

mdily
. avaitz4.M

off._ as anything
-..
_ more
_

an added bunus to a reissued CD. The packaging
of T?wBea~les
asa major event in mtiicai
history is laughable, if rtat utterly pathetic.
While demos and outtikes are ~II age-honoured
than

‘Anh&gy

pursuit of purists and complete fanatics alike, they
must remain a labour ofiove. Prepackaged
masters ot
these demos is as oxymoranic
as it is moronic, Even
the Beatles aren’t good enough to have their shit
passed off as gold.
So maybe money can’t buy love, but it can clearly

buy tht: Bcades.

the huge commercial
success of
and what’s more that video for
Synchronicip,
an album of diverse
“Fragile”
with Sting in a pirate
stylings,
fantastic drum work by
shirt, bare feet, and guitar in hand
Stewart Copland, and poetic yet
is just a bit ridiculous.
Starting to
still angry lyrics from Sting, like
slip...
both parts of the title track, or even _ I988 - Sting goes on Brazilian rain“King of Pain.”
forest-saving
overdrive,
as well as
1983 - The band decide to call it a
any other PC-loving
cause he can
day, with the assumption that Sting
latch onto.
will pursue a solo career
1991- Sting puts out his fourth solo
I985 - Sting releases The Dream
work
The Soul Cages. The first
Blue Turtles.
Here he pursues a
single talks of Hadrian’s Wall, what
more jazz-like
turn on his music,
passes for rock music on the album
with at least acceptable results. “(If
is smooth, tame and airbrushed,
You Love Someone)
Set Them
and it contains
a Spanish guitar
Free” has a warm, soulful feel, but
instrumental
called “Saint Agnes
rather preachy vocals such as those
and
the
Burning
Train.”
on “Russians”
and “Children’s
Urn.. .rather crap, actualfy.
Crusade” mar the whole enterprise.
1993 - Album number five Ten
1987 - Mr. Sumner’s third album
Summnor ‘s Tales comes out, and
it’s not just rather crap, it’s fu0 on,
(I’ll skip Bring on the Night) Nothing Like the Sun, a double, is put
unadulterated
crap. Sting’s MOR
instincts are fully developed,
and
out. It proves to be a further journcy into softer jazz-rock
fusion, but
CFNY DJ’s actually sound embarthistimeanot-so-pleasantone.
Sure
rassed when they introduce
his
“Be Still My Beating Heart,” is fine
music on air.
also 1993 - Sting drives the absoenough, but there’s lots that isn’t,

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Mathews

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Imprint staff

It’s a shame when good music
Remember
goes
unnoticed.
Branford
Marsalis? The guy who
used to be the frontman
for Jay
Lena’s band? Well he and his dad,
Ellis, have put together an album
that deserves all the press it can get.
Loved Ones is classy, melodic, romantic, and moving.
With only
Ellis on the piano and Branford on
saxophone,
the songs allow for an
expression
that is unheard of in
popular music today.
This one is definitely
for the
ladies. Romance is in the air when
the Marsalis’
lay on their versions
of the Gershwin’s
“Liza,” or Duke
Ellington’s
“Sweet Loraine.”
The
duo lend themselves
to a music
creativity
that takes the listener
from one beautiful medley to another. There’s a tight interplay between father and son with both
taking
turns with melody
and
rhythm,
making the songs a delightful listening experience.
But
Branford doesn’t play on all of the
tracks leaving only Ellis
interpret some of these classics with his
own flavour and aroma. Standards
Iike”Delilah”
fromI#&fSi&Story,
and “Bess You is My Woman”
from PO~JJ and BHS, give the album a familiar edge while Ellis
throws in his own creative touches.
to

InitiallyJoved
Ones was to be
a solo effort by Ellis alone, but as
the idea progressed
into reality he
realized
that the addition
of
Branford on sax would nicely complement the tracks. Ellis reflects:
“~1s f played through these songs, I
thought Branford would sound really good on some of them.
Branford, to me, is the most creative and imaginative
person playing music today.” So the production of Loved Ones moved on with
brother/son
Delfeayo Marsalis behind the mixing board.
Both Ellis and Branford come
to this album with a worldofknowl-

edge behind them. Ellis’ tesume
reads a long list including
a
Grammy
nomination
in 1985, a
professor of music at several American universities,
and a board member for the National
Endowment
for the Arts. Branford is no rookie
either, withprevious
collaborations
with Sting and the Grateful Dead
he’s also been nominated for a couple Grammies
in I993 and 1995.
Loved Ones takes the listener
through some of the most romantic
songs in jazz history. The ultimate
product is soft and sweet, and pleasant to the ear; don’t let Lolled Ones
go unnoticed.

MAXIMIZE

I think I’ve figured out what’s
wrong with pop music today. It’s
Gren, and others like them. They
flood the market with the same old
crap and lead the gullible general
public to believe that this is good
music. It’s a conspiracy.
They’re
out to get us all. This is not paranoia. This is reality. They will stop
at nothing until every last one of
you is bouncing through a mosh pit
and singing along with their mindless melodies. They’re after your
money. They’re
after your ears.
They’re after you.
OK, back to the subject at hand:
Gren. This band is going to be big.
Perhaps not right now, but soon.
How do I know this? Well, the
radio stations that hold the power
to make a band big usually ignore
things like musical talent or creative originality.
What gets a band
played is sounding like the band
that made it big just a year or two
ago. And, of course, it helps if the
songs fit into that three to four
minute range that appeals to the
public’s
short attention span. So,
given the fact that Gren seem to
have no more talent than anyone
else on the radio right now, and
that they definitely do not have an
original sound, they should be getting all the airplay they need to
make you, the humble radio lis-

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Curnp Grenada
Of course, if you
do that, their conspiracy
grows
stronger and we may never get them
off the airwaves.
Besides, you really don’t need
this CD in your collection. The only
thing keeping them from sounding
like Green Day is the singer. Instead of putting on his best t‘ake
British accent (i.e., Green Day) he
tries to sound like Kurt Cobain.
Chances are this CD will find its
way into the “alternative”
section
of your favourite record store. Who
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mainstream as a band can get without infringing
on Oasis’s copyrights! There is no reason for this
album to exist, other than to squeeze
a little more money out of your
veins. Don’t be fooled when the DJ
on your favourite radio station starts
playing Gren all the time. The DJ is
probably part of the conspiracy too.
Don’t let them get you.
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yourself. Go out and find a CD by
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or Nick
Cave
or
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Okay already ! Enough with
the Green Day clones!
Where do
they all come from?
As if one
Green Day isn’t enough!
I will
admit now, that I only picked up
this album because I liked one guys
shoes on the back cover...and
boy
am I regretting that decision!
Nothing Sacred has got to be
one of the least original albums of
the month. I suppose it doesn’t help
that I am not a Green Day fan. I get
the distinct impression
that they’re
trying to cash in on Green Day’s

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success.
Come on guys, develop
your own sound a little before you
put out an album.
Hog is made up of members
Kirk Miller on guitar and vocals,
Dillinger on bass, and Matt Gillis
on drums.
The only redeeming
thing is that Hogplay well together.
I think they could have a chance if
they concentrated
more on developing their own style.
One of the things that really
disgusts me is the extent of the style
imitation,
The singer Kirk Miller,
has a voice indifferentiable
from
Green Day’s lead vocalist.
I have
seen ,many an Elvis impersonator,
but this is ridiculous.
If you really want to add another Green Day title to your collection then Hog is a reasonable
substitute.

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Yes folks, it’s yet another boring synth pop group, this time from
New Zealand. I am not saying that
synth pop as a musical style is necessarily boring, just that Babble
definitely is. Babble sounds suspiciously like, a mix between U2, Ace
of Base and Madonna.
No new
sounds here, it’s just the same old
thing recycled back to our poor ears
once more.

better than Tom’s, especially during “Into the Ether,”
but their lyrics are quite repetitive
and not very interesting.
The theme
of most of the songs is love, but this
album definitely
doesn’t
inspire
feelings of love within me.
Ether is what I consider an
incredibly boring album. If Babble
creates another album I hope that
they at least vary the sound of their
songs throughout the album to make
it a little more interesting.
However, if you really like Madonna
and U2, and don’t mind hearing the
same sort of thing again, you may
like this.
If you’re looking for new happenings within the world of synth
pop, do not look here.

The track “Made In Heaven”
features the typical smooth vocals
by Freddie and a guitar solo by
Brian May in traditional
Queen
style. “Let ‘Me Live” uses gospel
singers for backing vocals but has
more to do lyrically with a suffocating love rather than Freddie’s physical condition. Emotionally “Mother
Love” is perhaps the most touching
and distinctive
song, its slow pace
and poignant lyrics are laced with
meaning which is enhanced by concert out-takes and concludes with a
baby’s crying.
The album is “dedicated to the
immortal
spirit of Freddie Mercury,” and perhaps this is the manner by which this album should be
looked at. W’hile this album isn’t a
masterwork
Queen’s legacy is, and
their impact, as well as Freddie’s,
on the world wit1 never be forgotten.

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could be heaven for
reflects the atmosphere
of the mountains and its impact on
Freddie in his latter days, though
the song is written by drummer
Roger Taylor.
LJusically
this album isn’t the
quality of their earlier work and,
there was no tune that matched any
on either of their two greatest hits
albums.
Throughout,
the general
tone is quiet and soft with none of
the rousing works like “Bohemian
Rhapsody”
inciting energy in the
listener.
“It’s A Beautiful Day” is a very
short intro to the album with a piano
focus, but the reprise of this song as
the last track lasts over 22 minutes
and features a few laughs over a
bare synthesized
music track and
ends with what seems to be a statement of “fab” in the last few seconds.

This last album by Queen, put
out after the death of Freddie Mercury is composed of late sessions
with the star at their Swiss mountain studio shortly before his passing, Supposedly
the pain of the
illnesses incurred
with Freddie’s
coping with AIDS was so much
that these last sessions were short
and far between.
Ironically,
when he first went
there Freddie wondered why anyone would ever want to live or
record at this mountain
retreat.
Perhaps
in recognition
of this
“Heaven
For Everyone”
with its

piano and lap steel (Mike Malone),
Banjo (Alex Kisch), as well as the
usual percussian
and guitar assortment found in most of your generic

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As is with much modem rock
these days, Dirt Merchants
have a
sound SO familiar that you’re sure
you’ve heard it before.
It’s not a
new sound, but dispite this, Dirt
Merchants
succeed in entertaining.
Throughout
the album I am
reminded
of Sonic Youth in the
way Maria Christopher
uses her
pleasant husky voice and many of
the guitar styles and effects used.
Alex Kisch’s voice provides a pleasing accompanment
to Maria’s on
several songs. However the lyrics,
when they can be heard, are not
very interesting.
Dirt Merchants
are good musicians and they use a
variety of instruments
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The Sun oJTiphareth
is a dramatic journey
through
the icy
realms of Scandinavian
and Viking mythology.
Most impressive are the vocal
lines which will be particularly
pleasing for fans of the B lack M eta1
genre, as they sound heavy with
projectiles of vomit and yesterday’s
lunch while the music is a return to
the pre-Thrash
Metal offerings of

again!
It’s the signature
percussion
workofProscriptorthatmakesAbsu
the success it is though. Proscriptor
manages to take the classic metal
riffs of Equitant Ifernain Dal Gais
and Shafiiel Lord of Shadows and
turn then1 into something
worthy
of the 2 1 century, while the spoken
passages and clean female vocal
parts which manifest themselves
throught the disk serve to transport
the listener to a place hitherto unknown.
Most of the seven tracks clock
in at around the 10 minute mark
with the most impressive
tracks

Friday, March 22, 1996

that
has several
verses
of
“lalalalalalalalalalalala.,.
lalala”
haphazardly
stuck in the middle of
the song, making it sound like they
just couldn’t
‘be bothered thinking
up any more lyrics. “Bullfight”
on
the other hand, is my favourite
on the album. It’s fast, loud
and sounds like its got attitude. The last three songs
:
on the album, “Glow in the
“Mindfuck,”
and
“c.l.o.l.a,”
give the album
an interesting
twist as
they finish off in a jazzy

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All in all, a
good album.
Not
exciting, but it has
it’s good points and
it didn’t bore me to
death. If your a modern rock fan then you
may like this album. It’s
not ,a new sound, but they
well.

being the title track, “A Quest Into
the 77thNove1,“and
“Apzu.”
Typical Absu lyrics are as follows:
“Munus
Sigsigga,
Ag Bara Ye,
lnnin Aggish
Xashxur,
Gishnu
l-Jr-ma,” “Edin Na Zu, Edin Na Zu,”
and the immortal “Zagros, Avagon.
Ngga, Shabatu.”
Does it get any
better then thiis?
But wait, there’s more! At no
extra cost to you Absu throw in the
mandatory
stud leather and corpse
paint of the Norwegian Black scent
aswell as liner notes full of pictures
of Viking warriors and symbols of
the Satanic/Ellack
Metal faith; all
in an attempt to conceal the horrid
truth: these Norwegians
are Texans!

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Coming Out Discussion Group explores
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